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Badanie modelowe działania wiatru na budynek wysoki
Wind tunnel tests of wind action on a high-rise building

Author(s): Grzegorz Bosak
Subject(s): Architecture
Published by: Biblioteka Politechniki Lubelskiej
Keywords: wind pressure measurements; wind tunnel; high-rise building; wind action; aerodynamic interference

Summary/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.

  • Issue Year: 13/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 163-171
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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