This theme lecture presents the seismic design of industrial facilities according to the next generation of Eurocode 8 and the evaluation of facilities based on digital building models and structural monitoring data.
- General introduction: Seismic behaviour of industrial facilities
- Typical damages to industrial facilities in past earthquakes
- Overview: Seismic design codes and guidelines
- Seismic design of ancillary elements
- Results and findings of the SERA-project SPIF
- Modelling and design approaches in EN 1998-4-Draft-2021
- Seismic design of tank structures
- Theory, analysis and design approaches
- Rigid/flexible/convective pressure components
- Time history analysis versus response-spectrum analysis
- Anchored and unanchored tanks with uplift
- Damping effects
- Superposition rules for pressure components
- Introduction of new design approaches in EN 1998-4-Draft-2021
- Digital building models and structural monitoring
- Digital plant models (BIM)
- Integration of smart sensor systems in BIM
- Integrated monitoring approach
- Post-earthquake Damage evaluation
Presentation of a case study