Mitigation of Ground Vibration due to Collapse of a Large-Scale Cooling Tower with Novel Application of Materials as Cushions

Figure 16

Acceleration histories of collapse-induced ground vibration at point in radial, tangential, and vertical directions at a distance of 300 m in (a) computational Case 1; (b) computational Case 2; (c) computational Case 3 for cooling tower under earthquake wave RG1.60.

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