Design for durability of natural draught cooling towers by life-cycle simulations

Engineering Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 899-908

  Kratzig W B ^a   Konke C ^a   Mancevski, D ^a   Gruber, K P ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Philipp Holzmann AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyclic damage; Elasto plastic simulations; Natural draught cooling towers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DURABILITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; LIFE CYCLE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CYCLIC DAMAGE; NATURAL DRAUGHT COOLING TOWERS;

COOLING TOWERS;

EID: 0032187376     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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