Validation of wind loading codes by experiments
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Between 1994 and 1997, full scale measurements of the wind and wind induced pressures were carried out on the main building of Eindhoven University of Technology. Simultaneously, a comparative wind tunnel experiment was performed in an atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel. In this paper, the transition from wind velocity into wind loading is studied from both experiments. This transition is expressed by three quantities: the pressure coefficient, the pressure admittance and the coherence. The results of the experiments show that the wind loading, defined in building codes, is based on assumptions, which are generally not valid for buildings. The errors, made in these assumptions, work in opposite direction, thus giving an unknown, but generally small error.
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TNO Identifier
328963
Source
Heron, 43(2), pp. 85-98.
Pages
85-98