Wind Load Effects on High-Rise and Long-Span Structures: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to advertise the second edition of our Special Issue dedicated to “Wind Load Effects on High-Rise and Long-Span Structures”. In this Special Issue, we recognize the need to enhance structural resilience against a single hazard and multiple hazards involving wind, via better load assessment methods, structural response, methods and techniques. In recent times, we witness the evolution of novel design frameworks that enable establishing load–system–response equivalences that are applicable to natural events that have traditionally coexisted in parallel. As talented visionary researchers push the boundaries towards the generation of new novel and original technologies for upgrading disaster preparedness and response, we contribute to enhance safety and reliability in engineering.

In this Special Issue, we will accept technical and non-technical approaches to estimate wind loading/wind–structure interactions in single events and in combination with separate hazards, via classical and novel theories and methods, including through forensic analysis and the scrutiny of case studies.

Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subjected to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments and applications.

I sincerely invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue and will look forward to receiving your outstanding research.

Dr. Pedro Martinez-Vazquez
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Keywords

  • analytical and experimental approaches to determine wind loads
  • structural performance against limit states
  • performance-based design initiatives
  • impact of extreme events
  • multi-hazards involving wind loading
  • aerodynamics and aeroelasticity
  • structural health monitoring and maintenance strategies
  • novel systems to optimize structural/aerodynamic response

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The Influence of Roof Opening and Closure on the Overall Wind Pressure Distribution of Airport Terminal Roof
by Mingjie Li, Xiaomin Zhang, Yuxuan Bao, Jiwei Lin, Cheng Pei, Xiaokang Cheng and Cunming Ma
Buildings 2025, 15(5), 735; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15050735 - 25 Feb 2025
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This article investigates the effects of roof opening and closure conditions on the mean and fluctuating wind pressure coefficient of the roof surface through rigid model wind tunnel tests and further explores the non-Gaussian characteristics of wind pressure (skewness, kurtosis, and wind pressure [...] Read more.
This article investigates the effects of roof opening and closure conditions on the mean and fluctuating wind pressure coefficient of the roof surface through rigid model wind tunnel tests and further explores the non-Gaussian characteristics of wind pressure (skewness, kurtosis, and wind pressure probability density) under the two conditions. Then, based on the non-Gaussian characteristics under two working conditions, this paper constructs a Hermite moment model to solve the peak factor of the roof surface to evaluate the impact of roof opening and closure on the most unfavorable extreme wind pressure. The research results show that under the two working conditions of roof opening and closure, the windward leading edge’s mean and fluctuating wind pressure coefficients change most significantly, leading to an increase in the degree of flow separation at the windward leading edge. This causes the skewness, kurtosis, and probability density function of the wind pressure at the windward leading edge of the roof to deviate significantly from the standard Gaussian distribution, exhibiting strong non-Gaussian characteristics. Meanwhile, based on the Hermite moment model, it is found that the peak factor of most measuring points is concentrated between 3.5 and 5.0 under both roof opening and closure conditions, significantly higher than the recommended value of 2.5 in GB 50009-2012. In addition, under roof opening, the most unfavorable negative pressure coefficient is −4.54, and the absolute value of its most unfavorable negative pressure extreme is 1.3% higher than the roof opening closure condition. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Load Effects on High-Rise and Long-Span Structures: 2nd Edition)
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Experimental Measurements of Wind Flow Characteristics on an Ellipsoidal Vertical Farm
by Simeng Xie, Pedro Martinez-Vazquez and Charalampos Baniotopoulos
Buildings 2024, 14(11), 3646; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14113646 - 16 Nov 2024
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The rise of high-rise vertical farms in cities is helping to mitigate urban constraints on crop production, including land, transportation, and yield requirements. However, separate issues arise regarding energy consumption. The utilisation of wind energy resources in high-rise vertical farms is therefore on [...] Read more.
The rise of high-rise vertical farms in cities is helping to mitigate urban constraints on crop production, including land, transportation, and yield requirements. However, separate issues arise regarding energy consumption. The utilisation of wind energy resources in high-rise vertical farms is therefore on the agenda. In this study, we investigate the aerodynamic performance of an ellipsoidal tall building with large openings to determine, on the one hand, the threshold income wind that could impact human comfort, and on the other, the turbulence intensity at specific locations on the roof and façade where micro-wind turbines could operate. To this end, we calculate the wind pressure coefficient and turbulence intensity of two scale models tested within a wind tunnel facility and compare the results with a separate CFD simulation completed in the past. The results confirm that the wind turbines installed on the building façade at a height of at least z/h = 0.725 can operate properly when the inlet wind speed is greater than 7 m/s. Meanwhile, the wind regime on the roof is more stable, which could yield higher energy harvesting via wind turbines. Furthermore, we observe that the overall aerodynamic performance of the models tested best under wind flowing at angles of 45° and 60° with respect to their centreline, whereas the turbulence at the wind envelope compares to that of the free wind flow at roof height. Full article
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A Study on Post-Flutter Characteristics of a Large-Span Double-Deck Steel Truss Main Girder Suspension Bridge
by Chunguang Li, Minhao Zou, Kai Li, Yan Han, Hubin Yan and Chunsheng Cai
Buildings 2024, 14(10), 3206; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14103206 - 9 Oct 2024
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To investigate the nonlinear flutter characteristics of long-span suspension bridges under different deck ancillary structures and configurations, including those with and without a central wind-permeable zone, as well as to analyze the hysteresis phenomenon of a subcritical flutter and elucidate the mechanisms leading [...] Read more.
To investigate the nonlinear flutter characteristics of long-span suspension bridges under different deck ancillary structures and configurations, including those with and without a central wind-permeable zone, as well as to analyze the hysteresis phenomenon of a subcritical flutter and elucidate the mechanisms leading to the occurrence of nonlinear flutter, this paper studies first the post-flutter characteristics of the torsion single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) test systems and vertical bending–torsion two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) test systems under different aerodynamic shape conditions are further analyzed, and the role of the vertical vibration in coupled nonlinear flutter is discussed. The results indicate that better flutter performance is achieved in the absence of bridge deck auxiliary structures with a central wind-permeable zone. The participation of vertical vibrations in the post-flutter vibration increases with the increase in wind speed, reducing the flutter performance of the main girder. Furthermore, the hysteresis phenomenon in the subcritical flutter state is observed in the wind tunnel experiment, and its evolution law and mechanism are discussed from the perspective of amplitude-dependent damping. Finally, the vibration-generating mechanism of the limit oscillation ring is elaborated in terms of the evolution law of the post-flutter vibration damping. Full article
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