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BS EN IEC/IEEE 60980-344:2021

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Nuclear facilities. Equipment important to safety. Seismic qualification

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This International Standard describes methods for establishing seismic qualification procedures that will yield quantitative data to demonstrate that the equipment can meet its performance requirements. This document is applicable to electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and control equipment/components that are used in nuclear facilities. This document provides methods and documentation requirements for seismic qualification of equipment to verify the equipment’s ability to perform its specified performance requirements during and/or after specified seismic demands. This document does not specify seismic demand or performance requirements. Other aspects, relating to quality assurance, selection of equipment, and design and modification of systems, are not part of this document. As seismic qualification is only a part of equipment qualification, this document is used in conjunction with IEC/IEEE 60780-323.

The seismic qualification demonstrates equipment’s ability to perform its safety function(s) during and/or after the time it is subjected to the forces resulting from at least one safe shutdown earthquake (SSE/S2). This ability is demonstrated by taking into account, prior to the SSE/S2, the ageing of equipment and the postulated occurrences of a given number of lower intensity operating basis earthquake (OBE/S1). Ageing phenomena to be considered, if specified in the design specification, are those which could increase the vulnerability of equipment to vibrations caused by an SSE/S2.

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2 undefined
5 Annex ZA(normative)Normative references to international publicationswith their corresponding European publications
7 CONTENTS
11 FOREWORD
13 INTRODUCTION
16 1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
24 4 Abbreviated terms
25 5 General discussion of earthquake environment and equipment response
5.1 General
5.2 Earthquake environment
5.3 Equipment on foundations
5.4 Equipment on structures
26 5.5 Interfaces and adverse interactions
5.6 Simulating vibration induced by an earthquake
5.6.1 General
5.6.2 Response spectrum
27 5.6.3 Time history
5.6.4 PSD function
5.7 Damping
5.7.1 General
28 5.7.2 Measurement of damping
5.8 Application of damping
5.8.1 General
5.8.2 Application of damping in testing
29 5.8.3 Application of damping in analysis
6 Seismic qualification requirements
6.1 General
30 6.2 Specification of equipment to be qualified
6.3 Specification of ageing condition
6.4 Specification of seismic requirements
6.5 Specification of acceptance criteria
31 7 Seismic qualification approach
7.1 Safety function
7.2 Seismic qualification methods
32 8 Ageing
8.1 General
33 8.2 Thermal ageing
8.3 Radiation ageing
8.4 Material degradation and corrosion
8.5 Mechanical or electrical cycle ageing
8.6 Vibration ageing
8.6.1 General
34 8.6.2 Ageing from non-seismic vibration conditions
8.6.3 Hydrodynamic loads
8.6.4 Seismic ageing (OBE/S1)
9 Testing
9.1 General
9.1.1 Test programme
36 9.1.2 Mounting
9.1.3 Monitoring
9.1.4 Loading
37 9.1.5 Refurbishment
9.1.6 Exploratory tests
39 9.1.7 Seismic ageing (OBE/S1)
9.2 Proof and generic testing
40 9.3 Fragility testing
9.4 Component testing
9.5 Assembly testing
9.5.1 General
41 9.6 Test methods
9.6.1 General
42 9.6.2 Single-frequency test
44 Figures
Figure 1 – Sine beat
Figure 2 – Decaying sine
45 9.6.3 Multiple-frequency tests
48 Figure 3 – Random spectrum with superimposed sine beats
49 Figure 4 – Resonant amplification versus cycles per beat
50 9.6.4 Other tests
9.6.5 Test duration and low-cycle fatigue potential
9.6.6 Multi-axis tests
52 9.6.7 Line-mounted equipment
53 9.6.8 Additional tests
9.7 Test documentation
10 Qualification by similarity
10.1 General
10.2 Excitation
10.3 Physical systems
54 10.4 Safety function
11 Analysis
11.1 General
55 11.2 Seismic analysis methods
11.2.1 General
56 11.2.2 Static analysis
11.2.3 Static coefficient analysis
11.2.4 Dynamic analysis
57 11.3 Nonlinear equipment response
11.4 Other dynamic loads
11.5 Seismic analysis results
58 11.6 Documentation of analysis
12 Combined analysis and testing
12.1 General
12.2 Modal testing
12.2.1 General
12.2.2 Normal-mode method
59 12.2.3 Transfer-function method
12.2.4 Analytical methods utilizing test data
12.2.5 Qualification
12.3 Extrapolation for similar equipment
12.3.1 General
12.3.2 Test method
60 12.3.3 Analysis
12.4 Shock testing
12.5 Extrapolation for multi-cabinet assemblies
12.6 Other test/analysis
61 13 Documentation
13.1 General
13.2 Seismic qualification report
13.2.1 General
13.2.2 Analysis
13.2.3 Testing
62 13.2.4 Combined analysis and testing or similarity
63 Annex A (normative)Experience-based seismic qualification
A.1 General
A.2 Earthquake experience data
A.2.1 General
A.2.2 Characterization of the earthquake experience motions
64 A.2.3 Earthquake experience spectrum (EES)
A.2.4 Characterization of reference equipment class
65 Table A.1 – EES reduction factor based on number of independent items
66 A.2.5 Qualification of candidate equipment
67 A.3 Test experience data
A.3.1 General
A.3.2 Characterization of test experience input motions
A.3.3 Test experience spectra (TES)
68 A.3.4 Characterization of reference equipment class
69 A.3.5 Qualification of candidate equipment
A.4 Special considerations
A.4.1 Inherently rugged equipment
70 A.4.2 Limitations
A.5 Experience-based documentation
A.5.1 General
71 A.5.2 Reference data
A.5.3 Candidate equipment qualification
72 Annex B (informative)Measurement of zero period acceleration
73 Annex C (informative)Frequency content and stationarity
74 Annex D (informative)Fragility testing
D.1 General
D.2 Excitation motion
75 D.3 Application of results
D.4 Other considerations
77 Annex E (informative)Test duration and number of cycles
78 Figure E.1 – Fractional cycles to obtain one equipment maximum peak cycle
79 Figure E.2 – Equivalent peak-stress cycles induced by stationary random motion
Figure E.3 – Equivalent peak-stress cycles inducedby stationary random motion to 20 Hz
81 Annex F (informative)Statistically independent motions
82 Annex G (informative)Seismic qualification illustrative flowcharts
G.1 General
G.2 Establishment of seismic conditions and acceptance criteria
G.3 Qualification by testing
G.4 Qualification by analysis
G.5 Qualification by combination of analysis and testing
83 Figure G.1 – Seismic qualification flowchart
84 Figure G.2 – Seismic qualification test flowchart
85 Figure G.3 – Seismic qualification analysis flowchart
86 Figure G.4 – Seismic qualification analysis and test flowchart
87 Bibliography
BS EN IEC/IEEE 60980-344:2021
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