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Earthquake Analysis of Tall Chimneys and Stack-Like Structures

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Tall chimneys and vertical self-supporting vessels are an important feature of power and petrochemical industry. Damage to them during an earthquake can have a severe consequence both in terms of economy and loss of human life.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Refer Sects. 10.6 and 10.7 for further details.

  2. 2.

    Refer Fig. 10.10 for further clarifications.

  3. 3.

    The flue gas needs sufficient exit velocity to reduce the ground level pollution concentration.

  4. 4.

    Note: For brevity of presentation, the analysis is presented for two places after the decimal point; however, the actual analysis is carried out to the precision up to 15 places after the decimal point.

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Chowdhury, I., Dasgupta, S.P. (2019). Earthquake Analysis of Tall Chimneys and Stack-Like Structures. In: Earthquake Analysis and Design of Industrial Structures and Infra-structures. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90832-8_10

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