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Nonlinear behavior of R/C cooling tower shells

  • Hara, Takashi (Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Tokuyama College of Technology) ;
  • Kato, Shiro (Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) ;
  • Ohya, Makoto (Department of Civil Engineering, Matsue National College of Technology)
  • Published : 1997.09.25
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Abstract

In this paper the ultimate strength of the R/C cooling towers, which have initial imperfection and pre-cracked elements, is analyzed. The initial geometric imperfections arise from the unavoidable inaccuracies under the construction and the pre-cracks are assumed to be produced by the temperature stress gradients or cyclic loading under wind pressure and/or earthquake load. Both effects are strongly influenced on the strength of the R/C cooling tower shell structures. The reinforcing ratio is also the important factor to evaluate the ultimate strength of the R/C cooling tower shells. However we could not analyze these structures experimentally because of their large, analyses are the powerful schemes to evaluate the safety and reliability of these structures. The analyzed model is Port Gibson cooling tower shell. In the numerical analysis the geometric and material nonlinearities are taken into account.

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