Investigations of dynamic characteristics of a tall industrial chimney due to light wind and solar radiation

Peter Breuer


Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences; Stuttgart, Germany (Germany)

Tadeusz Chmielewski


Department of Structural Mechanics; Faculty of Civil Engineering; Opole University of Technology (Poland)

Piotr Górski


Department of Structural Mechanics; Faculty of Civil Engineering; Opole University of Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9355-3410

Eduard Konopka


Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences; Stuttgart, Germany (Germany)

Lesław Tarczyński


Opole University of Technology; Opole, Poland (Poland)

Abstract

The present paper describes field tests conducted on the 300 m tall industrial chimney, located in the power station of Bełchatów (Poland), where the GPS rover receivers were installed at three various levels. The objectives of these GPS tests were to investigate the deformed vertical profile of this chimney, and its dynamic characteristics, i.e. the first natural frequency and the modal damping ratios. The results for the satellite signal receptions, the synopsis of recorded baselines and their ambiguity solutions, drifts of the chimney due to solar radiation and air temperature variations and dynamic wind response characteristics are presented.


Keywords:

chimney, monitoring, GPS, wind, temperature, dynamic, damping

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2013-06-11

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Breuer, P. (2013) “Investigations of dynamic characteristics of a tall industrial chimney due to light wind and solar radiation”, Budownictwo i Architektura, 12(2), pp. 087–094. doi: 10.35784/bud-arch.2083.

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Peter Breuer 

Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences; Stuttgart, Germany Germany

Authors

Tadeusz Chmielewski 

Department of Structural Mechanics; Faculty of Civil Engineering; Opole University of Technology Poland

Authors

Piotr Górski 

Department of Structural Mechanics; Faculty of Civil Engineering; Opole University of Technology Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9355-3410

Authors

Eduard Konopka 

Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences; Stuttgart, Germany Germany

Authors

Lesław Tarczyński 

Opole University of Technology; Opole, Poland Poland

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