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Pile-Soil Interaction In Unsaturated Soil Conditions, Megan Hamilton
Pile-Soil Interaction In Unsaturated Soil Conditions, Megan Hamilton
Honors Theses and Capstones
The degree of saturation has been proven to significantly affect geotechnical engineering designs for foundations. The changes in water content will influence the way the soil behaves, including its strength and stiffness parameters. These characteristics were analyzed for a uniform silty sand by developing P-Y curves, which relate lateral loading to lateral deformations. These P-Y curves were input into FB-Multipier, a software developed by the Bridge Software Institute. The software is capable of generating deformations as a result of user-defined loading cases. The results indicated that the middle range of degrees of saturation produced the least amount of deformation. This …
Dynamic Testing Procedures For Performance Assessment Of Nuclear Fuel Rods, Travis M. Adams
Dynamic Testing Procedures For Performance Assessment Of Nuclear Fuel Rods, Travis M. Adams
Honors Theses and Capstones
Existing transportation probabilistic risk assessment for spent nuclear fuel in the United States is based on short-term (decades) on-site storage at power plants before transport. Updated risk assessment estimates will be required as extended on-site storage (centuries) and higher burnup levels in fuel become standard. Nuclear fuel rods under these two conditions are more brittle than rods from short-term storage and intermediate burnup due to several mechanisms, including hydrogen embrittlement. Development of risk assessment requires characterizations of dynamic behavior of these degraded rods under transportation scenarios. This Honors thesis provides an initial literature review for a larger project that will …