New design concept and damage assessment of large-scale cooling towers

	Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 15, Number 1, January 2003, pages 53-70 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/sem.2003.15.1.053
	New design concept and damage assessment of large-scale cooling towers
	Sam-Young Noh, Konstantin Meskouris, Reinhard Harte, and Wilfried B. Kratzig
Abstract [Full Text]
	The motivation of this paper is to introduce the modern technology of large-scale cooling tower design. Thereby the innovative design concept for the world
Key Words
	cooling tower; FE-simulation; structural damage; material modeling of RC.
Address
	Institute for Structural Statics and Dynamics RWTH Aachen, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Strasse 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal, Pauluskirchstrasse 7, D-42285 Wuppertal, Germany Institute for Statics and Dynamics, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Universit?tsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany