Comparison between wind load by wind tunnel test and in-site measurement of long-span spatial structure

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Liu ◽  
Wei-Lian Qu ◽  
Qiu-Sheng Li
2011 ◽  
Vol 66-68 ◽  
pp. 334-339
Author(s):  
Mei Yu ◽  
Hai Li Liao ◽  
Ming Shui Li ◽  
Cun Ming Ma ◽  
Nan Luo ◽  
...  

Long-span suspension bridges, due to their flexibility and lightness, are much prone to the wind loads, aerodynamics performance has become an important aspect of the design of long-span suspension bridges. In this study, the static wind load acting on the suspension bridge during erection has been investigated through wind tunnel test and numerical analysis. The wind tunnel test was performed using a 1:50 scale section model of the bridge, the static wind load acting on the section model was measured with varying attack angles. Numerical method used here was computational fluid dynamics simulation, a two-dimensional model is adopted in the first stage of the analysis, then the SIMPLE algorithm was employed to solve the governing equations. The analytical results were compared with the wind tunnel test data, it was shown from the study that the results of CFD simulation was good agreement with that of the wind tunnel test.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Xianglei Wei ◽  
An Xu ◽  
Ruohong Zhao

The traditional wind-induced response analysis of high-rise buildings conventionally considers the wind load as a stationary stochastic process. That is, for a certain wind direction angle, the reference wind speed (usually refers to the mean wind speed at the building height) is assumed to be a constant corresponding to a certain return period. Combined with the recorded data in wind tunnel test, the structural response can be computed using the random vibration theory. However, in the actual typhoon process, the average wind speed is usually time-variant. This paper combines the interval process model and the nonrandom vibration analysis method with the wind tunnel test and proposes a method for estimating the response boundary of the high-rise buildings under nonstationary wind loads. With the given upper and lower bounds of time-variant wind excitation, this method can provide an effective calculation tool for estimating wind-induced vibration bounds for high-rise buildings under nonstationary wind load. The Guangzhou East tower, which is 530 m high and the highest supertall building in Guangzhou, China, was taken as an example to show the effectiveness of the method. The obtained boundary response can help disaster prevention and control during the passage of typhoons.


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 666-672
Author(s):  
Wen Bo Sun ◽  
Qing Xiang Li ◽  
Han Xiang Chen ◽  
Wei Jian Zhou

In this paper, the system and the design philosophy of wheel-spoke cable-membrane structure of Baoan Stadium is introduced firstly. And then the study of wind tunnel test on 1:250 scale model is mainly presented, together with the numerical calculation of the wind dynamic response. Finally, the wind-resistant design of the roof structure based on the results of wind tunnel test and the foreign design codes is generally introduced.


2010 ◽  
Vol 163-167 ◽  
pp. 4389-4394
Author(s):  
Cheng Qi Wang ◽  
Zheng Liang Li ◽  
Zhi Tao Yan ◽  
Qi Ke Wei

Wind load on complex-shape building, the wind tunnel test and numerical simulation were carried out. The two technologies supplement each other and their results meet well. There are mainly positive pressures on the windward surface, negative pressures on the roof, the leeward surface and the side. Especially, negative pressure is higher in the leeward region of the building corner. Its effect induced by the shape of the complex-shape building is remarkable.


2013 ◽  
Vol 351-352 ◽  
pp. 410-414
Author(s):  
Nan Li ◽  
Ji Xin Yang

In this paper, the wind field around the flat box girder of a long-span bridge under 0o attack angle was investigated by the numerical wind tunnel technique, which can not only get the distributions of the pressure, velocity and vortex in the flow field, but also obtain the various aerodynamic parameters of the bridges. The velocity profiles were obtained, and the coefficient of tri-component from the numerical simulations was in good agreement with that from the wind tunnel test, which demonstrated that it was reliable and feasible to utilize the numerical wind tunnel technique to simulate the wind field and certificate the coefficient of tri- component of the bridge.


2007 ◽  
Vol 347 ◽  
pp. 365-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong Wook Lee ◽  
Tae Won Ahn ◽  
Dong Seop Han ◽  
Tae Hyung Kim ◽  
Geun Jo Han

In this study we carried out to analyze the effect of wind load on the structural stability of a container crane according to the change of the boom shape using wind tunnel test and provided a container crane designer with data which can be used in a wind resistance design of a container crane assuming that a wind load at 75m/s wind velocity is applied on a container crane. Data acquisition conditions for this experiment were established in accordance with the similarity. The scale of a container crane dimension, wind velocity and time were chosen as 1/200, 1/13.3 and 1/15. And this experiment was implemented in an Eiffel type atmospheric boundary-layer wind tunnel with 11.52m2 cross-section area. Each directional drag and overturning moment coefficients were investigated.


2012 ◽  
Vol 178-181 ◽  
pp. 2131-2134
Author(s):  
Jie Wang ◽  
Jian Xin Liu

Against the problem of the aerodynamic interference effects on aerostatic coefficients between parallel continuous rigid frame bridges with high-pier and long-span, the aerodynamic interference effects on aerostatic coefficients of main beam in the parallel long-span continuous rigid frame bridges were investigated in details by means of wind tunnel test. The space between the two main beams and wind attack angles were changed during the wind tunnel test to study the effects on aerodynamic interferences of aerostatic coefficients of main beam. The test got aerostatic coefficients of 10 conditions. The research results have shown that the aerodynamic interference effects on aerostatic coefficients of main beam in parallel bridges can not be ignored. The aerodynamic interference effects on parallel bridge main beam is shown mainly as follows: The drag coefficient of main beam downstream dropped and the drag coefficient of main beam upstream changed but not change significantly. There are also the aerodynamic interference effects of lateral force coefficient and torque coefficient between the main beams upstream and downstream. The effects upstream are smaller and the effects downstream are larger.


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