Title
Full scale investigation of the wind loads on a light-weight building-integrated photovoltaic system
Author
Geurts, C.P.W.
Bronkhorst, A.J.
van Bentum, C.A.
Publication year
2017
Abstract
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
Subject
2015 Fluid & Solid Mechanics
SD - Structural Dynamics
TS - Technical Sciences
Buildings and Infrastructures
Architecture and Building
2015 Urbanisation
To reference this document use:
http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6e30e946-0ed2-4a7c-8e23-e9e9fef630d8
TNO identifier
776904
Source
Seventh European and African Conference on Wind Engineering (EACWE2017) Liege, Belgium, July 4-7, 2017, 1-10
Document type
conference paper