ABSTRACT
In this chapter the wind-loading and wind-induced response of a variety of slender vertical structures will be considered: chimneys of circular cross section, free-standing lattice towers, observation towers of varying cross section, poles carrying lighting arrays or mobile telephone antennas, and guyed masts. Natural draft cooling towers, although not slender, are large wind-sensitive structures; the loading and response under wind action of these structures will be considered briefly in Section 11.6.
