Abstract:The increasing momentum for Natural Gas exploitation in Europe and worldwide constitutes Liquified Gas terminals indispensable links of energy supply network. Infrastructures of this kind should be resilient against the earthquake hazard and thus designed accounting for as much as possible sources of uncertainty such as modelling issues, analysis methods, seismic input selection, soil effects and others. To date, research efforts have not assessed the response of pipe racks sufficiently, let alone the interact… Show more
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