Structural Engineering and Mechanics
Volume 15, Number 1, 2003, pages 53-70
DOI: 10.12989/sem.2003.15.1.053
New design concept and damage assessment of large-scale cooling towers
Sam-Young Noh, Konstantin Meskouris, Reinhard Harte, and Wilfried B. Kratzig
Abstract
The motivation of this paper is to introduce the modern technology of large-scale cooling tower design. Thereby the innovative design concept for the world
Key Words
cooling tower; FE-simulation; structural damage; material modeling of RC.
Address
Institute for Structural Statics and Dynamics RWTH Aachen, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Strasse 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany<br />Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal, Pauluskirchstrasse 7, D-42285 Wuppertal, Germany<br />Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Universit?tsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany