Building Design, Analysis and Qualification Services:

• Structural Design Bases Definition and Load Determination - SAR, USNRC Regulatory Guides, Etc.
• Development of Structural Criteria Documents
• Development of Amplified Response Spectra- Seismic and other Dynamic Events
• Building Analysis - Internal member load calculations for all defined load cases including hydrodynamic, seismic, wind/tornado, and jet impingement loads using finite-element techniques as appropriate.
• Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction
• Building Qualification- In accordance with the AISC Manual of Steel Construction, ACI 318, ACI 349, API Working Stress Design, API Load Resistance Factor Design, and/or the Uniform Building Code as required for Steel and Concrete Structures.
• Static/Dynamic Analysis of Structures for Inelastic Material Behavior and Other Structural Nonlinearities
• Collapse Analysis
• Analysis of special structures:
  - Buried Structures
  - Crane Structures
  - Bridge Structures
  - Off Shore Structures
  - Confinement Structures
  
• Fluid/Structure Interaction (Tanks)

Pipe Support Design, Analysis and Qualification Services:

• Development of Structural Criteria Documents
• Pipe Support Internal Member Load Calculations for all Defined Load Cases - Static and Dynamic Analysis using Finite Element Techniques as Appropriate.
• Base Plate and Anchor Bolt Analysis/Qualification - Qualification of pipe support components in accordance with ANSI B31.1, B31.3, AISC manual of steel construction, ASME B&PV Code, Section III, Subsection NF and vendor load ratings as required.
• Stress/Design Reports
• Pipe Rupture, Pipe Whip and Jet Impingement Analyses.

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