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A comprehensive study on wind loading and wind effects in the specific case of cooling towers is presented in this paper and was applied to the case of the towers of TERUEL Power Station in Spain.

It is well known that failures at several sites of U.K. happened in past decades because of lack of understanding of wind behaviour around the towers. The methodology of the study started by carrying out an extremal analysis to find out the maximum wind speed at 10 m above ground for a return period of T = 50 years. Wind speed values came from two sources of data, which were correlated in this analysis. Then, a procedure having in account wind-structure interaction was worked out to obtain an accurate evaluation of wind pressure at each point of the structure. Vertical and horizontal pressures obtained by this study presented a great level of disagreement with the Spanish code of practice.

Finally a structural analysis based on finite elements model is presented in the paper allowing to quantify differences in terms of structural responses as displacements and internal forces.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 56 ADVANCES IN CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING FOR PRACTICE Edited by: B.H.V. Topping Paper II.3 Structural Behaviour of Cooling Towers under Different Wind Loadings A. Mosquera, J.A. Jurado and S. Hernandez University of La Coruna, La Coruna, Spain doi:10.4203/ccp.56.2.3 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper A. Mosquera, J.A. Jurado, S. Hernandez, "Structural Behaviour of Cooling Towers under Different Wind Loadings", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Civil and Structural Engineering Computing for Practice", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 41-50, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.56.2.3 Abstract A comprehensive study on wind loading and wind effects in the specific case of cooling towers is presented in this paper and was applied to the case of the towers of TERUEL Power Station in Spain. It is well known that failures at several sites of U.K. happened in past decades because of lack of understanding of wind behaviour around the towers. The methodology of the study started by carrying out an extremal analysis to find out the maximum wind speed at 10 m above ground for a return period of T = 50 years. Wind speed values came from two sources of data, which were correlated in this analysis. Then, a procedure having in account wind-structure interaction was worked out to obtain an accurate evaluation of wind pressure at each point of the structure. Vertical and horizontal pressures obtained by this study presented a great level of disagreement with the Spanish code of practice. Finally a structural analysis based on finite elements model is presented in the paper allowing to quantify differences in terms of structural responses as displacements and internal forces. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £95 +P&P)
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