Analysis on Wind-Induced Vibration of Tall Buildings in Hilly Terrain

2014 ◽  
Vol 580-583 ◽  
pp. 2567-2571
Author(s):  
Yi Sun ◽  
Nuan Deng ◽  
Zheng Liang Li

The responses of tall buildings under wind loads in hilly terrain are remarkably different from that in flat terrain. Wind load codes can’t work efficiently or directly to calculate the wind-induced vibration of tall buildings in hilly terrain. Utilizing some wind tunnel test results of wind field in hilly terrain and pressures on tall buildings, the access to response of tall buildings on hilly terrain were provided. Some effects from hill characteristics to building responses were discussed.

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (08) ◽  
pp. 1750092 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. Huang ◽  
Zhibin Tu ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Wenjuan Lou ◽  
Q. S. Li

Dynamic wind loads on tall buildings can be decomposed into three components, i.e. two translational components and one torsional component. When one component reaches its maximum, the other two components have low probability to take their maximum values. It is common to use combination coefficients for estimating the mean extremes of linearly combined wind loads. The traditional design practice for determining wind load combinations relies partly on some approximate combination rules and lacks a systematic and reliable method. Based on the high frequency force balance (HFFB) testing results, wind loads can be acquired in terms of time history data, which provides necessary information for the more rigorous determination of combination coefficients by probabilistic methods. In this paper, a 3D copula-based approach is proposed for determining the combination coefficients for three stochastic wind loads associated with a specific exceedance probability and a set of 3D realizable equivalent static wind loads (ESWLs) on tall buildings. Using the measured base moment and torque data by the HFFB wind tunnel test, a case study is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework to determine the dynamic wind load combinations and associated 3D realizable ESWLs on a full-scale 60-story building.


Author(s):  
Risto Kiviluoma ◽  
Atte Mikkonen

<p>This paper describes theoretical framework on forming equivalent static wind loads (ESWL) for large bridges. A method is proposed for efficient handling of large number of load cases, when vibration and structural analysis is extended to skew winds, i.e., to the wind directions other than the principal ones. These appear to be increasingly important in many practical cases when complex bridge geometry is used for architectural uniqueness; or when the bridge is situated in city centres or hilly terrain, where local obstacles make the wind turbulence difficult to assess with standard models.</p><p>The method uses a set of load cases for principal wind directions to be input and solved with the static Finite Element (FE) model. Combination matrix is deduced for the results to assess skew winds. The method is alike that is frequently used in wind-tunnel studies of tall buildings. ESWL determination is done in co-operation with the wind and the bridge engineer. The needed input for the wind engineer includes numeric vibration mode shape data, global nodal coordinates and mass distributions. ESWL are created in numeric form that could be easily input to the FE-model. The method allows utilisation of various type analysis results and experimental data available for the bridge, including section-model based analysis, full-model wind-tunnel tests and structural monitoring results. It facilitates examination and adjustment of appropriate safety marginal to wind loads that take into account methodologic uncertainties in each.</p><p>It is proposed that wind-tunnel laboratories, or other wind engineers with bridge analysis expertise, should more often include ESWL-extraction to their services.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 2083 (3) ◽  
pp. 032083
Author(s):  
Qi Zhou ◽  
Yuxiang Zhu ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Jiceng Han

Abstract At present, the wind tunnel test results will have certain deviation and distortion when the wind tunnel test is conducted on certain mountainous terrain with complex local terrain and large variation of wind field characteristics due to the accuracy range of the measuring instruments used in wind tunnel test. In order to correct and obtain correct wind tunnel test results, the wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations were conducted on a super-large bridge in the mountainous area of Southwest China, and the wind parameters of the wind field at the bridge site were obtained. The CFD results were compared with the wind tunnel test results to confirm the credibility of the CFD results; a method was proposed to correct the deviated wind tunnel test data based on the CFD simulation results; the deviated wind tunnel test data were corrected and predicted with the above method, and a more satisfactory correction result was obtained.


2012 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 433-436
Author(s):  
Tian Yin Xiao

9 models of tall buildings with different rectangular cross-sections are tested in a wind tunnel. After processing and analyzing the measured data of fluctuating pressure on the models, the effects of models’height, aspect ratio, side ratio on the power spectra of torsional wind loads are studied. New formulas of power spectral density of torsional wind loads are proposed by curve fitting method. The applicability of the formulas has been verified by the results from the wind tunnel test.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Ivransa Zuhdi Pane

Data post-processing plays important roles in a wind tunnel test, especially in supporting the validation of the test results and further data analysis related to the design activities of the test objects. One effective solution to carry out the data post-processing in an automated productive manner, and thus eliminate the cumbersome conventional manual way, is building a software which is able to execute calculations and have abilities in presenting and analyzing the data in accordance with the post-processing requirement. Through several prototype development cycles, this work attempts to engineer and realize such software to enhance the overall wind tunnel test activities. Index Terms—software engineering, wind tunnel test, data post-processing, prototype, pseudocode


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3315
Author(s):  
Fabio Rizzo

Experimental wind tunnel test results are affected by acquisition times because extreme pressure peak statistics depend on the length of acquisition records. This is also true for dynamic tests on aeroelastic models where the structural response of the scale model is affected by aerodynamic damping and by random vortex shedding. This paper investigates the acquisition time dependence of linear transformation through singular value decomposition (SVD) and its correlation with floor accelerometric signals acquired during wind tunnel aeroelastic testing of a scale model high-rise building. Particular attention was given to the variability of eigenvectors, singular values and the correlation coefficient for two wind angles and thirteen different wind velocities. The cumulative distribution function of empirical magnitudes was fitted with numerical cumulative density function (CDF). Kolmogorov–Smirnov test results are also discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
Yoshiro Hamada ◽  
Kenichi Saitoh ◽  
Noboru Kobiki

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