Foundation design of exhaust towers on ships

The scope of this master thesis is to establish a basic and general criterion for the design of foundations depending on the type of supported equipment. Hence a standart for the applied work would be settled and weight saving could be possible by selecting the right profiles. In the third and last part of this study a model design is performed by a commercial packaged software (SAP2000), which is developed based upon finite element method, for the biggest foundation encountered on a floating energy central. This structure, which is called exhaust tower, is designed to carry and support the equipment of exhaust system located on the main deck. Structure's own weight, supported equipment and wind loads are taken into account while working on its design and three different scenarios with different wind loads are examined. In consequence of this examinations the model is analyzed for its convenience and the results of three scenarios are compared. By making iterative refinements, a light weight structure within the limits of safe zone, is tried to be created.