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Prediction Of Wind Loads On Tall Buildings: Development And Applications Of An Aerodynamic Database, Bernard Kim
Prediction Of Wind Loads On Tall Buildings: Development And Applications Of An Aerodynamic Database, Bernard Kim
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The Western University Aerodynamic Database (WAD) has been developed as an alternative means for structural engineers to estimate the preliminary design wind loads on tall buildings. The database consists of aerodynamic loads obtained from either the force-balance or pressure model tests on 56 tall buildings in their simulated actual surroundings carried out in the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory at Western University. The data for a given building include the statistics of the normalized aerodynamic loads such as the means, root-mean squares, and power spectral density functions of the base bending moments in two orthogonal directions and base torque. To …