Time-domain simulation of the non-linear response of cooling tower shells subjected to stochastic wind loading

Engineering Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 881-889

  Zahlten, Wolfhard ^a   Borri, Claudio ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS;

AUTORGRESSIVE FILTER METHOD; NEWMARK INTEGRATOR; NEWTON-RAPHSON EQUILIBRIUM ITERATIONS; TENSION CRACKING; TENSION STIFFENING;

COOLING TOWERS;

COOLING TOWER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; WIND LOAD;

EID: 0032190422     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(97)00115-6     Document Type: Article

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