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

Table 1

Material parameters for low carbon steel ST12 [15].

Parameter	Value
Density (g/mm^3)	7.85 × 10^−3
Elastic modulus (MPa)	2.1 × 10^5
Tangent modulus (MPa)	560
Yield strength (MPa)	285
Poisson’s ratio	0.3
Parameter in Cowper-Symonds model (ms^−1)	2.6
Parameter in Cowper-Symonds model	5.7