@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00000803,
 author = {Hara, Takashi},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 issue = {1},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {R/C cooling towers are used for many kinds of industrial and power plants. These are huge structures and also show thin shell structures. R/C cooling towers are subjected to its self-weight and the dynamic load such as an earthquake motion and a wind effects. Especially, dynamic analyses of these structures are important factor to design R/C cooling tower structures. In this paper, dynamic behavior of R/C cooling tower shell under an earthquake loading is analyzed by use of FEM focused on the column arrangement systems. To reduce the computational efforts to solve such problems, the technique for a parallel computing is applied. To solve the nonlinear dynamic response of a huge cooling tower with local deviation, the element by element (EBE) parallel approach is adopted by using of PC cluster. From the numerical analyses, the effects of the combination of R/C shell and column systems are examined.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {Dynamic Response of R/C Cooling Tower Shell Considering Supporting Systems},
 volume = {2},
 year = {2006}
}