Overview of the benchmark analysis for piping support structures in the task force phase 2-2

Takito, Kiyotaka ; Nakamura, Izumi*; Okuda, Yukihiko  ; Sakai, Michiya*; Shimazu, Ryuya*; Otani, Akihito*; Watakabe, Tomoyoshi; Okuda, Takahiro; Shibutani, Tadahiro*; Shiratori, Masaki*

The Piping systems in the nuclear power plants are known to exhibit significant elastic plastic behavior before failure caused by the response displacement under serve seismic load. Current Code Case considers the elastic-plastic behavior of piping system itself, but assumes the elastic behavior for the support structure. Thus, it is desirable to incorporate the inelastic behavior of piping support structure as the future upgrading of the Code Case. In order to develop an evaluation method for inelastic behavior of support structures, the authors as the JSME task group carried out benchmark analyses of piping support structures. Then, the purpose of the benchmark analysis is in order to evaluate the influence of the analysis parameters in the elastic plastic analysis of piping support structures and to obtain knowledge on the variability of the analysis results. This paper reports on the outline and progress of the benchmark analyses.