Cooling towers are high and thin structures which widely used at the industry nuclear facilities. These built on column elements as reinforced concrete. Determining behavior of buildings affected by dynamic loads such wind earthquake is very important in terms preventing loss life property. In this study, hyperbolic cooling with 117m height tower was examined behaviors structure effects were in...

The need for comparable loading histories for seismic acceptance testing is becoming more prevalent as (a) performance-based design, which requires quantification of performance, is becoming a more widely accepted alternative to routine code design, (b) more and more innovative performance enhancement systems (e.g., buckling restrained braces) hit the engineering market, and (c) globalization b...

Channel estimation problem is one of the key technical issues in sparse frequency-selective fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme. To estimate sparse MIMO channels, sparse invariable step-size normalized least mean square (ISS-NLMS) algorithms were applied to adaptive sparse channel estimation (ACSE). It...

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership journal. The views expressed this article do not necessarily reflect ASCE Editorial Board

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership journal. The views expressed this article do not necessarily reflect ASCE Editorial Board