EFFECT OF WIND LOADS ON STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION OF COOLING TOWER
Published In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Author(s): A. D. JOHN , A. GAIROLA , R. FOROUGHI
Abstract: This paper presents influence of interfering structures on deformation of cooling tower due to non-axisymmetric horizontal wind loads. First, the pattern of the wind load distribution on cooling tower has been studied in a wind tunnel on 1:150 geometrical scale models with interfering structures, then deformation pattern of the tower have been studied. Wind loads on cooling tower have been obtained under a simulated wind condition for open country and suburban terrain in a Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Experimental results show that, in case of interference for an oblique approach wind, there is a significant increase in the magnitude of the net pressure coefficients on windward meridian. Using the experimental wind load values, numerical linear analysis was performed to find the deformation of the tower. The deformations of the tower have evaluated for both mean and fluctuating wind loads. Due to mean wind loads, the maximum deformation o
- Publication Date: 02-Jun-2014
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-012-5-84
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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON RECTANGULAR BRICK MASONRY COLUMNS RETROFITTED WITH FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERS
Published In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Author(s): DEEPA A. JOSHI , GOPAL RAI , R. K. JAIN
Abstract: This paper presents an experimental study of rectangular clay brick masonry columns retrofitted with Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP). The experimental program involves casting of 15 column specimens out of which 3 specimens were tested as control specimens without application of FRP and 12 specimens were wrapped with FRP strips. The control specimens were tested till failure under uniaxial compressive load whereas the other 12 specimens were subjected to pre-compression load of around 80 to 90 % of ultimate failure load till vertical splitting cracks were observed predominantly. The FRP material used for retrofitting was Carbon (CFRP) and Glass (GFRP). The potential of FRP anchors in enhancing the load carrying capacity of columns was also accessed through the experimentation. The arrangement of FRP strips for all specimens were kept identical to have fair comparison for other parameters. From the analysis of experimental results it can be concluded that the FRP strip wrapping is an ef
- Publication Date: 02-Jun-2014
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-012-5-85
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