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

Figure 9

(a) “Thin-walled tube-soil” model; (b) “equivalent tube-soil” model; (c) acceleration histories of observation ground point at a distance of 32 m in radial and vertical directions for the case of initial velocity of 60 m/s.

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