Wind and Earthquake calcs for tall towers
Wind and Earthquake calcs for tall towers
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Can anyone point me to a textbook or website were I can find detailed calculations on wind and earthquake calculations for tall towers supported by a base ring. Thank you.






RE: Wind and Earthquake calcs for tall towers
These historic papers in pressure vessel design are offered for your information:
• "A Proposed Method for Finding Stress and Allowable Pressure in Cylinders with Radial Nozzles," PVP Vol. 399
• The L P Zick paper for horizontal vessels on saddles
• The Boardman paper on cone-to-cylinder juncture stresses
• "Vibrations of Vertical Pressure Vessels" by C E Freese
• "The Design of Vertical Pressure Vessels Subjected to Applied Forces" by E O Bergman
• "Evaluation of Percent Critical Damping of Process Towers" by Karamchandani, Gupta, and Pattbiraman
• "Stresses in a Pressure Vessel With a Conical Head" by G W Watts and H A Lang
All papers are self-expanding zipped or Adobe pdf files.
RE: Wind and Earthquake calcs for tall towers
You may also be interested in ASME STS-1-2000 'Steel Stack Design', which provides guidance for Along Wind, Across Wind, and Seismic Design for cylindrical steel stacks.