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Concrete Foundations for Turbine Generators Analysis, Design, and Construction Process Committee on Turbine Generator Foundations Edited by Hongchun Liu, P.E. PDF Free Download

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The design of turbine-generator foundations requires advanced technical expertise in structural engineering and soil dynamics, as well as close collaboration with manufacturers, mechanical and electrical engineers, and plant designers. Various manufacturers have different requirements for such foundations, and application of code provisions can demand a significant degree of interpretation. Concrete Foundations for Turbine Generators: Analysis, Design, and Construction provides the practical assistance needed by structural engineers and facility owners to meet these challenges with the most up-to-date and reliable information available. This Manual of Practice addresses the design of three types of concrete foundations for turbine generators: block foundations, with pedestals, piers, and blocks supported on a common mat foundation (basemat); elevated space-frame pedestal foundations, with columns, walls, and a tabletop supported on the basemat; and foundations where equipment or structural elements are supported on a vibration-isolation system. Topics include turbine generator equipment, foundation layout and sizing, foundation loads and load combinations, modeling of soil and pile response to dynamic loads, finite element modeling, serviceability analysis and acceptance criteria, strength and stability design, embedded items, vibration-isolated foundations, and construction considerations. Three appendixes on dynamic impedance discuss soil-supported rigid foundations, pile-supported foundations, and calculation examples.

Concrete Foundations for Turbine Generators Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
2. TURBINE GENERATOR EQUIPMENT
3. PRELIMINARY TURBINE GENERATOR FOUNDATION LAYOUT AND SIZING
4. FOUNDATION LOADS AND LOAD COMBINATIONS
5. MODELING OF THE SOIL AND PILE RESPONSE TO DYNAMIC LOADS
6. FINITE ELEMENT MODELING
7. SERVICEABILITY ANALYSIS AND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA 
8. STRENGTH AND STABILITY DESIGN
9. EMBEDDED ITEMS 
10. VIBRATION ISOLATED FOUNDATIONS
11. CONSTRUCTION CONSIDERATIONS

Preface to Concrete Foundations for Turbine Generators

In 1987, the Process Committee on Turbine Foundations of the Fossil Energy Committee and the Nuclear Power Committee of the Power Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) printed the primary information for the design of huge steam turbine generator foundations.

For the reason that information’s publication, there have been vital adjustments in design codes, advances in laptop evaluation, and elevated trade stress to refine basis designs.

A brand new process committee was fashioned in April 2014, beneath the management of the ASCE Power Division chaired by J. G. (Greg) Soules, to deal with the huge variation of study, design, and building apply which were utilized all through the trade for turbine generator basis designs over the previous 30 years in the USA.

Designing a turbine generator basis requires not solely superior technical experience in structural and soil dynamics, but in addition shut collaboration with machine producers and different disciplines (mechanical, electrical, and plant design).

Totally different producer necessities, and code provisions which can be subjected to interpretations when utilized to such foundations, current further challenges to the design engineers.

This doc was ready by the duty committee to supply sensible steerage within the evaluation, design, and building of turbine generator foundations.

It’s a results of vital collaborative efforts from all committee members, in addition to contributions from different trade specialists and professionals.

The supposed viewers for this doc contains structural design engineers, working firm personnel accountable for establishing structural design standards and building requirements, and native constructing officers.

For greater than three years, various key people devoted vital quantities of time and effort to formulating, originating, and reviewing intimately, both the entire doc or particular sections thereof.

These members are recognized within the Acknowledgments.

Concrete Foundations for Turbine Generators: Analysis, Design, and Construction PDF

Author(s): Task Committee on Turbine Generator Foundations, Hongchun Liu

Series: ASCE Manual and Reports on Engineering Practice

Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers

Year: 2018

ISBN: 0784414920

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