Earthquake Resistance of Cable Trays in China and Europe

Move and Change Shape: Ground shaking from an earthquake can make cable trays move and bend. This affects how stable they are and how much weight they can hold. This damages the whole cable tray. Cable tray and conduit systems have consistently performed well at conventional power and industrial facilities subjected to past strong-motion earthquakes larger than eastern U. plant safe shutdown earthquakes (1). This is so even though the systems are typically not designed for earthquake. The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Centre has been developing a performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) methodology, which is based on explicit determination of performance, e., monetary losses, in a probabilistic manner where uncertainties in earthquake ground mo-tion. This appendix provides the design criteria for seismic Category I cable trays and their supports. Seismic Category II cable trays and their supports are also designed utilizing the design criteria of this appendix. They may be supported singly or there may be several pieces of onduit or buss ducts attached to a common trapeze. On some occasions the condui hanger rods 12 in or less in length be restrained. The 12 in length was determined based on the natural. [PDF]