Abstract: A large hyperbolic cooling tower, under construction and nearly completed, was struck by a falling tower crane during a tornado on April 17, 1978. Damage occurred at the upper edge where a V‐shaped notch was gouged. Also, ...

Abstract: Much of the reported research on the dynamic analysis of pile foundations assumes linear behavior of soil that may not be valid for strong excitations. In this paper, material nonlinearity of the soil caused by plasticity ...