Full scale investigation of the wind loads on a light-weight building-integrated photovoltaic system
conference paper
The wind loads on solar energy systems are crucial for the engineering of the panels, substructure and fixings. There is a demand for aesthetically more acceptable solutions such as frameless solar systems. For these frameless systems, the wind loads are carried by the panels themselves. Combined with the increase in the size of photovoltaic (PV) panels, reducing the wind load is becoming more important. The wind loads on building integrated PV panels depend on the external pressures and the pressures in the cavity under the panels. The magnitude of these pressures and the resulting wind loads on the panels are to a significant extent determined by the pressure equalization caused by the openings between the panels. An in-situ experiment has been carried out to assess the influence of the openings on the external and cavity pressures, as well as on the overall wind loads.
TNO Identifier
776904
Source title
Seventh European and African Conference on Wind Engineering, EACWE2017 Liège, Belgium, 4-7 July 2017
Collation
10 p.
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