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New design concept and damage assessment of large-scale cooling towers

  • Noh, Sam-Young (Institute for Structural Statics and Dynamics RWTH Aachen) ;
  • Meskouris, Konstantin (Institute for Structural Statics and Dynamics RWTH Aachen) ;
  • Harte, Reinhard (Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal) ;
  • Kratzig, Wilfried B. (Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)
  • Received : 2002.10.04
  • Accepted : 2002.12.18
  • Published : 2003.01.25
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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's largest cooling tower with a height of 200 m is briefly presented (Harte & Kr$\ddot{a}$tzig 2002, Bush et al. 2002). The new concept was considered not only for safety, but also for preservation of the durability of the structure, because cracking damage in large cooling towers in general cause extremely high cost of maintenance and repair. The paper demonstrates numerically the damage process in large cooling towers (Kr$\ddot{a}$tzig et al. 2001), and describes some basics of the numerical finite element approach for damage propagation modelling of shell structure. A prototype is analysed to trace the progressive damage process, whereby the changes in the dynamical behaviour of the structure, as mirrored in its natural frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes, are presented and discussed. Finally, the example shows that such damage processes develop progressively over the life-time of the shell structure.

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