Natural Draught Cooling Towers: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium. Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany, 29-31 May 1996 Book

	Preface
	Conference organization
	Innovation as to design and construction of natural draught cooling towers from the point of view of a construction company	3
	Cooling tower Boxberg - Special aspects of design and construction	19
	On the equipment of the natural draught cooling towers of the new power plant Schwarze Pumpe	27
	Tower on meridional supports: Is it really the solution?	33
	Flue gas discharge via natural draught cooling towers - A survey	45
	Injection of purified gases into natural draft cooling towers - The new solutions	55
	Flue gas introduction in the old natural draught cooling tower	69
	The first in Poland adaptation of hyperbolic to disposal of combustion gases	75
	Influence of adjacent buildings on wind effects on cooling towers	83
	Nonlinear dynamic response of windloaded cooling tower shells	93
	Time-domain simulations of cooling tower shells subjected to stochastic wind loading	103
	Dynamic behaviour of cooling tower shells subjected to stochastic wind load	111
	Nonlinear behaviour of RC cooling towers and its effects on the structural design	123
	Nonlinear behaviours of cooling towers subjected to cyclic wind load	133
	Analysis of geometrically imperfect cooling tower shell considering the effect of tension stiffening of concrete	141
	Life-cycle damage simulations of natural draught cooling towers	151
	Influence of reinforcing arrangement into the ultimate strength of R/C cooling tower shell	159
	The role of crack modelling in the analysis of cooling towers	167
	Studies on inelastic behaviour of perfect and imperfect cooling tower shells	173
	Nonlinear finite element reliability of hyperbolic cooling towers under wind forces	183
	New developments in surface protection systems for natural draught cooling towers: Optimization potential relating to modern requirements	191
	Measures for the repair and protective coating of reinforced concrete cooling towers	195
	Surface protection measures for cooling tower shells for REA operations: Concept and process surveillance for retrofitting and new constructions	199
	High-performance concrete - An alternative to coatings?	207
	Stability and failure analysis of natural draught cooling towers: Comparison of different modellings	217
	A 2D modelling for cooling towers with geometrical imperfections and cracks	225
	Analysis of cooling towers with bulge imperfections	233
	An approximate classical buckling analysis of hyperbolic cooling tower	241
	Model studies of the intake structure of cooling water pumps: HKW Wurzburg and DIDCOT B	249
	Application of mathematical simulation for heat and mass transfer of cooling tower to optimal design for filling layout	257
	Air-blast effects on cooling tower	263
	Dynamic effects due to demolition of a cooling tower	271
	Analysis of safety of repaired reinforced concrete cooling towers	277
	Renovation of two natural draught cooling towers in Belgium	283
	Load capacity of the cooling tower supporting columns strengthened with a reinforced concrete band	289
	Strengthening of natural draught cooling tower shells with stiffening rings	293
	A new design concept to increase the safety and durability of cooling tower shells	305
	Standardization problems of combinations of wind, thermal and dead loads on cooling towers	313
	A revised UK standard for cooling towers (BS4485 Part 4)	321
	Review of codal provisions for design of cooling tower shell for thermal loads	329
	A local-global FE model for column-supported HCT analysis	337
	Finite element analysis of a cooling tower shell with openings for flue-gas ducts	345
	Dynamic optimization of hyperbolic cooling tower shell with ring-stiffeners	355
	Design of cooling towers by the finite element method	361
	On structural reliability of natural draught cooling towers	369
	Membrane forces in hyperbolic cooling tower induced by wind load: A 'closed' form solution	375
	Dynamic analysis of cooling tower by using component-mode synthesis	383
	Reliability of natural-draught hyperbolic cooling towers	389
	Automated visual inspection system of structures (CNS): Application to Electricite de France cooling towers	397
	LEZARD: A control device for cooling towers	403
	The measurements and identification of the cooling tower shell shape	409
	Prediction of structure deterioration based on the Bayesian updating	417
	Main problems of operation, repairs and modernization of reinforced concrete cooling towers	423
	Definition of the ageing parameters of shell concrete in atmospheric cooling towers	429
	Defects of cooling tower concretes in the Czech Republic	445
	Problems of execution of maintenance on cooling towers in the Czech Republic and quality control methods	451
	200m-natural draught cooling tower Frimmersdorf: A step to a new dimension in design and construction	459
	A productive cooling tower	465
	Author index	467