Analysis of Natural Draught Hyperbolic Cooling Towers by Finite Element Method Using Equivalent Plate Concept

摘要

This paper leads to software package utilized towards a practical application by considering problem of natural draught hyperbolic cooling towers. The main interest is to demonstrate that the column supports to the tower could be replaced by equivalent shell elements so that the software developed could easily be utilized. For demonstrating this, a single case of the tower with alternative ‘I’ and ‘V’ supports is taken up. It is demonstrated that the behaviour in respect of equivalent plates are identical to the behaviour where the actual column supports are considered. For this the wind load over the structure is applied.