Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics
SECED promotes the study and practice of earthquake engineering, dynamics, and vibration issues like blast and impact.
- Date
- 29 March 2023
- Time
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Overview
Nuclear safety-related structures in the UK such as those sited at Sellafield are required to be designed to resist extreme hazards including those associated with a rare 1-in-10,000 year earthquake. The earthquake liquefaction hazard therefore needs to be considered on nuclear sites in the UK.
Such a study was carried out for Sellafield in the 1980’s, but Sellafield Ltd considered that a new seismic liquefaction vulnerability assessment for Sellafield needed to be carried out, taking into account the latest developments from technical literature and the significant additional geotechnical and geological information from the large number of new exploratory hole logs that have been constructed since that time. This presentation outlines the methodology utilised in the new study, presents its results and conclusions, and compares them with those of the previous assessments.
Speaker
Angelo Farnetano
Sellafield Ltd
senior geotechnical engineer
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Angelo Farnetano
Angelo Farnetano is a chartered civil engineer in Italy and the UK, and is currently working as the principal geotechnical engineer at Sellafield. He has more than 10 years’ experience in structural and geotechnical design.
Angelo has been involved in many projects, including major infrastructure projects both in the UK and abroad.
He has been a member of the Sellafield Geotechnical, Seismic and Extreme Hazard team since 2019, providing design capability and expert advice for the facilities being constructed at Sellafield.
