Application of TQM to the Waste Management QA Regulatory Arena
Over the past several years, a number of the scientists involved with the high-level radioactive waste repository project have expressed concern regarding the application of quality assurance...
The Shaft Excavation Effect Experiment
The Shaft Excavation Effect (SEE) experiment has been carried out by Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC). Corresponding to this experiment, an evaluation system...
Three-Dimensional Groundwater Flow Modelling for a Potential Repository Site
In Finland site investigations are carried out at five places in order to find a suitable site in the Finnish bedrock for a repository for spent nuclear fuel. The aim is to model the bedrock...
Perils of Project Development on Public Land Open to Mining
Conducting a government project on public land open to the general mining laws can result in added costs, legal entanglements, schedule uncertainties, and the potential for unanticipated...
An Integrated Systems Approach to Institutional/Technical Program Milestone Planning and Implementation in the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program
A broad spectrum of public and private sector institutions in the United States has concerns about the high-level radioactive waste management program. An integrated systems approach is...
Scenario Evolution: Interaction Between Event Tree Construction and Numerical Analyses
Construction of well-posed scenarios for the range of conditions possible at any proposed repository site is a critical first step to assessing total system performance. Event tree construction...
A Formalism to Generate Probability Distributions for Performance-Assessment Modeling
A formalism is presented for generating probability distributions of parameters used in performance-assessment modeling. The formalism is used when data are either sparse or nonexistent....
Historical Overview of Domestic Spent Fuel Shipments?Update
The information in this paper summarizes historic data on spent fuel shipments in the United States. The data are updated periodically to keep abreast of changes. Information on shipments...
The Technical Challenge of Mechanized Excavation for Nuclear Waste Repositories
The requirements of mechanized tunnelling and shafting techniques within this newly developing field, namely the excavation of Nuclear Waste Repositories, will challenge the designers...
A First Look at Roadheader Construction and Estimating Techniques for Site Characterization at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
The Yucca Mountain site characterization program will be based on mechanical excavation techniques for the mined repository construction and development. Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM's),...
Visualizing the Performance of Structural Optimization Processes
Graphical constructions are discussed that enable the performance of iterative structural optimization processes to be evaluated visually. The first, a basins of attraction construction,...
Computer-Based Interactive Design for Prestressed Concrete Structures
Prestressed concrete structures can provide a highly desirable solution for many structural applications because the designer gains control over several additional parameters as compared...
Integrated Structural Design Software in the IBM Architecture & Engineering Series
The Architecture and Engineering Series (AES) software by IBM is a high function, fully integrated design, drafting, and information system. The system provides three dimensional geometry...
Computer-Aided Structural Analysis
Finite Element Methods and other numerical techniques are often taught nowadays in the undergraduate Structural Analysis courses. Commercial, structural computer programs are becoming...
A Survey of Discrete Variable Optimization for Structural Design
Available methods for discrete variable structural optimization are reviewed. Methods are classified according to three categories: branch and bound, approximations using branch and bound,...
MINLP and MILP Strategies for Discrete Sizing Structural Optimization Problems
We address an important practical problem of optimum structural design in the presence of discrete sizing constraints. In addition, the topology of the structure may vary as well. The...
Structural Shape Optimization: An Implementable Algorithm
A computational algorithm for optimal shape design of linearly elastic structures is presented. For this problem continuum as well as discrete formulations have been developed and analyzed...
Benchmark Problems for Shape Optimization in Plane Stress or Strain
The purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of engineers and researchers who are working with finite element shape optimization techniques, the closed-form solutions for a unique...
An Analysis Procedure for Cable Structures Using an Isoparametric Finite Element
The computer modeling and analysis of cable structures creates a major problem for the analyst in that the geometry of the cables is dependent on analysis results. The purpose of this...
A Regional Mapping Procedure for Finite Element Mesh Design
The paper summarizes our recent work in the development of practical algorithms for the automated mesh design in finite element stress analysis. A regional mixed mesh improvement procedure...
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