Self-weight Stresses in Hyperbolic cooling Towers Of General Shape

摘要

Explicit analytical results are developed for self-weight membrane stresses in hyperbolic cooling towers of general shape, for a number of different patterns of shell-thickness variation along a meridian of the shell of revolution. The very general nature of the results makes them particularly useful in obtaining quick estimates of dead-weight stresses for structures of this type, and any desired parametric studies may readily be undertaken, permitting the designer to choose the most optimum shell- thickness variation for a given combination of geometric parameters of th hyperboloid of revolution.