selected publications

• academic article

  • Facing technological challenges of Solar Updraft Power Plants.  Journal of Sound and Vibration.  334:57-84. 2015
  • Solar updraft power plants: Engineering structures for sustainable energy generation.  Engineering Structures.  56:1698-1706. 2013
  • Impact of storms and earthquakes on industrial installations – New risk control approaches required?.  Natural Hazards.  46:243-256. 2008
  • New natural draft cooling tower of 200 m of height.  Engineering Structures.  24:1509-1521. 2002
  • World’s Tallest Natural Draft Cooling Tower, near Cologne, Germany.  Structural Engineering International.  2001
  • Detuning of wind-induced vibrations of cooling tower shells.  Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.  30:77-83. 1988
  • Simulation of static and kinetic buckling of unstiffened and stiffened cooling tower shells.  Engineering Structures.  9:9-18. 1987
  • Cooling Tower Practice in Germany: State of the Art.  Journal of the Energy Division.  1982

• chapter

  • Lifetime-Oriented Analysis and Design of Large-Scale Cooling Towers.  Elsevier eBooks. 87-98. 2001

• conference paper

  • Shape Optimization, Design and Construction of the 200m Niederaussem Cooling Tower Shell.  . 2001