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This paper deals with the study of two cooling towers of 200m high above ground level. Cooling tower is adevice which converts hot water into cold water due to direct air contact. It works on the temperature difference betweenthe air inside the tower and outside the tower.Natural draft cooling tower is one of most widely used cooling tower.Hyperbolic shape of cooling tower is usually preferred because of its strength and stability and large available area atthe base due to shape. As it is very important structure in nuclear and chemical plants, it should be continuously assessedfor its stability under self-weight, and lateral loads like wind load and earthquake load. Therefor cooling towers havebeen analyses for wind load by assuming fixity at the shell base. The wind loads on these cooling towers have beencalculated in the form of pressures by using the circumferentially distributed design wind pressu re coefficients as givenin IS: 11504-1985 code along with the design wind pressures at different levels as per IS:875 (Part 3)- 1987 code. Thesetowers with very small shell thickness are exceptional structures by their sheer size and sensitivity to horizontal loads.

Parth.R.Chhaya, Nizam.M.Mistry, Anuj.K.Chandiwala, “A REVIEW ON EFFECT OF WIND LOADING ON NATURAL DRAUGHT HYPERBOLIC COOLING TOWER”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 1, Issue 12, pp. 47-50, December 2014.