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City development; urban growth; high-rise buildings; wind loading; surrounding buildings; tall structures; wind tunnel testing; cladding design; structural design
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Implication Of City Growth On Wind-Induced Loads For Cladding And Structural Design, Hadil M. Abdallah
Implication Of City Growth On Wind-Induced Loads For Cladding And Structural Design, Hadil M. Abdallah
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As cities grow, the urban topology changes in density resulting in continuous variations in wind flow. The interaction of flow with this changing surrounding environment drives the aerodynamics to become more complex and varying, subjecting the building to significant changes in wind-induced-loads both on structural and non-structural elements. In this study, a series of boundary layer wind tunnel tests are conducted to investigate the impact of city growth on cladding and structural loading by using a typical tall building adopted from the Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Council (CAARC) building model. The city growth is represented by five different generic surrounding configurations, …