Open AccessWind tunnel tests of wind action on a high-rise building
Author(s) -
Grzegorz Bosak
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
budownictwo i architektura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1899-0665
pISSN - 2544-3275
DOI - 10.35784/bud-arch.1891
Subject(s) - wind tunnel , tower , aerodynamics , wind engineering , hypersonic wind tunnel , engineering , action (physics) , structural engineering , wind direction , marine engineering , wind gradient , wind speed , meteorology , aerospace engineering , geography , physics , quantum mechanics
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.