Wind tunnel tests of wind action on a high-rise building

Grzegorz Bosak


Wind Engineering Laboratory; Department of Structural Mechanics; Faculty of Civil Engineering; Cracow University of Technology (Poland)

Abstract

The paper summarizes the results of wind tunnel tests of a wind action on a high-rise building design in Warsaw. Measurements were accomplished in Wind Engineering Laboratory of Cracow University of Technology. Wind pressures on external surfaces of the building model were acquired. A study of the character of the wind action on a tower of the building was the main aim of the paper. A triangle shape with rounded corners of the cross section of the tower and a complex group of neighbor buildings support aerodynamic analysis in a wind tunnel. Wind pressure coefficients on the external building surfaces and the global horizontal wind action on the building tower on full scale were analyzed.

 


Keywords:

wind pressure measurements, wind tunnel, high-rise building, wind action, aerodynamic interference

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Published
2014-06-11

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Bosak, G. (2014) “Wind tunnel tests of wind action on a high-rise building ”, Budownictwo i Architektura, 13(2), pp. 163–171. doi: 10.35784/bud-arch.1891.

Authors

Grzegorz Bosak 

Wind Engineering Laboratory; Department of Structural Mechanics; Faculty of Civil Engineering; Cracow University of Technology Poland

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