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Tune up your next Stack

April 5, 2019
Dampers, Stack, Vortex Shedding

One of the most common problems encountered on a cylindrical stack is wind-induced vibration due to vortex shedding. If you have never visually observed vortex shedding, watch this brief video and prepare to be amazed. There are a couple of options to address this problem, and this newsletter discusses the option of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMD). Helical…

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