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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/sem.2015.54.5.891

Wind-induced vibration characteristics and parametric analysis of large hyperbolic cooling towers with different feature sizes  

Ke, Shitang (Department of Civil Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Ge, Yaojun (State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University)
Zhao, Lin (State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University)
Tamura, Yukio (Center of Wind Engineering Research, Tokyo Polytechnic University)
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Structural Engineering and Mechanics / v.54, no.5, 2015 , pp. 891-908 More about this Journal
Abstract
For a systematic study on wind-induced vibration characteristics of large hyperbolic cooling towers with different feature sizes, the pressure measurement tests are finished on the rigid body models of three representative cooling towers with the height of 155 m, 177 m and 215 m respectively. Combining the refined frequency-domain algorithm of wind-induced responses, the wind-induced average response, resonant response, background response, coupling response and wind vibration coefficients of large cooling towers with different feature sizes are obtained. Based on the calculating results, the parametric analysis on wind-induced vibration of cooling towers is carried out, e.g. the feature sizes, damping ratio and the interference effect of surrounding buildings. The discussion shows that the increase of feature sizes makes wind-induced average response and fluctuating response larger correspondingly, and the proportion of resonant response also gradually increased, but it has little effect on the wind vibration coefficient. The increase of damping ratio makes resonant response and the wind vibration coefficient decreases obviously, which brings about no effect on average response and background response. The interference effect of surrounding buildings makes the fluctuating response and wind vibration coefficient increased significantly, furthermore, the increase ranges of resonant response is greater than background response.
Keywords
large hyperbolic cooling towers; wind tunnel test; wind-induced vibration characteristics; wind vibration coefficient; parametric analysis;
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