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As a part of a seismic proving test of a BWR Primary Containment Vessel (PCV), a vibration analysis is carried out considering the effect of reinforcement around attached masses such as equipment hatches and a personnel airlock. A deflected shape with the local attached masses and reinforcement is expanded using free vibration modes of an axisymmetric PCV without attached masses and reinforcement. The free vibration modes are calculated considering a coupling effect between the PCV shell and suppression pool water using conical shell finite elements and ring fluid elements. The same expanding functions and free vibration modes are used to express strain energy, kinetic energy and work done by inertia forces due to input acceleration considering locally varying thickness of the PCV and attached masses. The equations of motion are obtained by substituting the strain energy, kinetic energy, and work done by inertia forces into the Lagrange's equation. Calculated natural frequencies, free vibration modes and frequency response functions are compared with numerical results obtained by a general shell finite element analysis and with test results using the large-scale high-performance vibration table of Tadotsu Engineering Laboratory, Nuclear Power Engineering Test Center (NUPEC). The comparison shows a reasonable agreement, leading to better understanding of the dynamic characteristics of the BWR PCV.