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Wind and Earthquake calcs for tall towers

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

http://www.codeware.com/papers.html

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

A tall process tower is similar to designing a stack.  There are several programs for designing stacks and baseplates at www.mecaconsulting.com

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.  

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