Environmental and Hydraulic Considerations in the Design of a Circulating Water Cooling System
Environmental considerations play an important part in the design of a condenser cooling system. A once-through system may require assessment of a combination of events to determine the...
Design of a Stratified Cooling Channel
Cooling ponds are used for managing waste heat discharges. Cooling ponds are, however, expensive to construct and operate. A cooling channel is studied as an alternative means of managing...
Liabilities in Temporary Structures Failures?Representative Case Histories
Eight case studies involving construction accidents caused by failure of temporary structures are presented. These studies illustrate the oftentimes unintended consequence of utilizing...
Aseismic Calculations for Transmission Towers
In this paper, mechanical models for long-span transmission line systems under elastic and gravitational restoring forces are established in three different directions; this continues...
Reliability of Overhead Transmission Lines Subjected to Wind Action
The probability distribution of the strength of steel towers used in transmission lines, due to wind excitation, is evaluated on the basis of test results of 72 towers of various designs,...
Fully Nonlienar Models to Simulate Structural Response to Wind Loading
The paper summarizes some results of the analyses of two tall broadcasting towers, obtained by means of a specially developed numerical procedure taking into account all relevant nonlinear...
The Analysis of Horizontal Cooling Enhancement for Nuclear Waste Container Emplacement
This paper presents a novel method for distributing the heat generated by waste containers emplaced in the proposed high-level nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The method...
U.S. Landmarks: Handle With Care
Landmarks are treated with kid gloves during restoration, but striking a balance between costs and aesthetics is difficult. In addition to structural integrity, original construction methods...
Transmission Line Structure Loading
This paper outlines specific procedures for determining loads on transmission line structure systems that can be used in the reliability based design or assessment of components of these...
Improved Techniques for Assessing Structures
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has specially designed and equipped the tower testing station located within their Transmission Line Mechanical Research Center (TLMRC) near...
Assessment of Conductors
This paper deals with the mechanical integrity of conductors after several years in service and discusses current innovative conductor designs which benefit the structural designer working...
New Concepts in Transmission Line Design
Committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers have been in the forefront on updating design guides to address improved procedures for conventional latticed towers, formed-plate...
Longitudinal Impact Loading of Transmission Towers
A scale model has been developed to study a containment failure design concept for longitudinal (along the direction of the conductor) impact loading of electrical transmission structures....
Limit State Analysis Correlated to a Full Scale Tower Test
A Limit State analysis technique has been developed for evaluating the structural capacity of lattice steel electrical transmission towers. The tower strength is determined by using a...
Variation in Design Practice for Lattice Towers
The design and analysis procedures employed for lattice transmission towers vary among countries, companies, and designers. This variation in design practice affects the relative reliability...
New Outlines for 500 kV Transmission Towers Using Cold-Formed Shapes: The Experimental Line of the American Electric Power Research Institute
The use of cold-formed steel members, in electrical transmission towers, is actually a feasible, reliable and economical solution. The EPRI experimental line is an example of the newest...
Modular Restoration Structures?A Versatile and Cost Effective Transmission Tool
Most electric utilities use a large variety of different types and designs of transmission structures. Because of this, it is not practical or economically justifiable for these utilities...
Optimized Wall Thickness of Shells of Revolution
The aim of this paper was to develop a concept for the design of shells of revolution with different Gaussian curvature using a simplified finite element buckling analysis. A cooling tower...
Optimization of Cable Prestresses of Cable Stayed Bridges Based on Minimum Strain Energy Criterion
In this study, an attempt is made to determine the optimum cable prestresses based on the strain energy criterion. The validity of the strain energy criterion on the optimum cable prestresses...
Wind Tunnel Testing of the Karnali River Bridge
An extended wind tunnel testing program of the erection procedures and the stability of the completed one-tower cable-stayed Karnali River Bridge was conducted with the help of full bridge...
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