Aseismic design of tall reinforced concrete chimneys

摘要

A lack of experimental data related to the cyclic behavior of chimney structures to severe earthquake ground shaking has resulted in design standards generally ignoring the effects of ductility and adopting conservative aseismic design provisions. This paper presents results from an experimental study that Demonstrates that correctly detailed reinforced-concrete chimney Sections are not brittle but possess some ductility. The experimental Results have been used to develop a nonlinear dynamic analysis Procedure for evaluating the inelastic response of tall reinforced- Concrete chimney structures.