When extreme wind pressure is predicted based on the extreme value distribution theory, the sampling time–distance and sample volume of wind pressure data are important influencing factors. To discuss and analyze the influence of time–dis...
To investigate an appropriate wind load design for buildings considering dynamic air density changes, classical extreme value and copula theories were utilized. Using wind speed, air temperature, and air pressure data from 123 meteorological stations...
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...
Understanding wind pressure distribution on structures is crucial for evaluating design wind loads, especially for complex designs. This study investigated the wind pressure distribution on a windmill shape building with intricate geometries, i.e., t...
This study presents the results of experimental observation of wind pressure on low-rise buildings in three typical mountain forms through wind tunnel experiments. This research focuses on the distribution change in fluctuating wind pressure coeffici...
In China’s mountainous coastal terrain, storms can badly damage low-rise buildings. At present, it is not clear how the relative position of buildings and mountains affects the surface of low-rise buildings. The study compared these results wit...
This paper presents a novel flexible sensor for monitoring wind pressure distribution. Based on the concept of “flexible mechatronics”, a suspended structure was incorporated into the matrix of a resistive-strain sensor in a plastic film...
There is a lack of detailed information about wind flow and distribution of wind pressure around atypically shaped high-rise buildings. The national standard EN 1991-1-4 Eurocode 1 used to determine the effects of wind on the territory of Slovakia (a...
The investigation of wind pressure distribution on a façade of an atypically shaped 162 m tall building is discussed in this paper. The horizontal cross-section was changed with the height of the structure (the square in the bottom part and th...
Wind tunnel tests are carried out for the Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council (CAARC) high-rise building with a scale of 1:400 in exposure categories D. The distribution law of extreme pressure coefficients under different conditions...
Strong winds or typhoon disasters pose significant risks to historical buildings in many countries and regions. Although numerous researchers have discussed the damage caused by natural wind disasters, little attention has been paid to the potential...
Fixed double-row photovoltaic (PV) arrays are susceptible to wind-induced damage, while their wind load characteristics remain inadequately investigated. This study employs computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to systematically analyze wind...
In the heat insulation winding molding process of solid rocket motors, the pressure applied by the press roller directly affects the quality of the winding molding. Insufficient pressure can result in poor bonding quality and may cause defects. This...
With the development of construction technology and material, more and more super high-rise buildings will be constructed in the future. In a specific metropolitan area, super high-rise building with various cross-section and high side ratio have to...
Cladding for dome roofs is often made of membrane materials that are light and easy to install. Due to these characteristics, wind damage to dome roof cladding is very common. In particular, open or retractable dome roofs are prone to wind damage bec...
This study examines the static performances of a graphene platelet (GPL)-reinforced ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) composite membrane under wind loadings. The wind pressure distribution on a periodic tensile membrane unit was analyzed by using C...
Wind turbine blades are easily struck by lightning, a phenomenon that has attracted more and more attention in recent years. On this subject a large current experiment was conducted on three typical blade sandwich structures to simulate the natural l...
Supercritical wings are widely used in large aircraft due to their excellent transonic performance, but their aerodynamic characteristics are highly sensitive to Reynolds number. To systematically study the influence of Reynolds number on the aerodyn...
A subgrid-scale model based on coherent structures, called the Coherent Structure Smagorinsky Model (CSM), has been applied to a large eddy simulation to assess its performance in the prediction of wind pressure distributions on buildings. The study...
This paper uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to determine wind pressures on façades for the purpose of efficient design of these elements. An outstand fin arrangement was modeled where local brackets are used to protrude the fins from th...
The aim of this research is to analyze the pressure distribution caused by wind pressure on the structure of a single-family house. The research object is a model reflecting a real structure, which was damaged in 2018 because of heavy winds. The main...
Windblown sand two-phase flow characteristics become an essential factor in evaluating the windblown sand load on infrastructures and civil structures. Based on the measured wind characteristics in arid desert regions, windblown sand flow fields with...
Wind loads are a primary concern in dome roof structures with openings such as retractable dome roofs. This is because the openings can cause damage to the cladding owing to high internal pressure. In this study, the wind pressure characteristics of...
To expand the airfoil database and realize the reverse digital airfoil design, this paper proposes a new sectional expression function of wind turbine airfoil based on the Joukowski transformation and derives the function equation for the novel airfo...
Investigating the wind-induced vibration response of the greenhouse structure, and the wind pressure distribution on its surface takes on a critical significance when the main structure is under large wind loads. A computational fluid dynamics-based...
The wind flow patterns and pressure distribution around a plus-shaped building are significantly influenced by re-entrant corner dimensions and building height. The present study aims to find the wind effects and study the pressure distribution with...
The wind pressure coefficient is essential for calculating the wind loads on greenhouses. The wind pressure on single-span arched greenhouses built in valleys differs from those in plain regions. To promote our understanding of wind characteristics a...
Owing to strong winds during the typhoon season, damage to pilotis in the form of dropout of the exterior materials occurs frequently. Pilotis placed at the end exhibit a large peak wind pressure coefficient of the ceiling. In this study, the experim...
Wind resistance is one of the most important safety targets for high-rise buildings, especially slab-shaped ones with relatively large length–width ratios. In this study, the characteristics of wind pressure on a reduced-scale model of a slab-s...
Due to its effective noise reduction, the semi-enclosed noise barrier is increasingly being applied in the construction of high-speed railways. However, there is still a lack of systematic research on the wind load distribution characteristics under...
This paper focuses on field measurements and analyses of train-generated wind loads on wind barriers (3.0 m height and porosity 0%) with respect to different running speeds of the CRH380A EMU vehicle. Multi-resolution analysis was conducted to identi...
This paper investigates the twisted wind effect on a typical super-tall building (500-m-tall square prism) by conducting pressure model wind tunnel tests. Two twisted wind fields (TWFs) with maximum yaw angles of approximately 30° and 20°, re...
Large-span open prefabricated spatial grid structures are characterized by light mass, high flexibility, low self-oscillation frequency, and low damping, resulting in wind-sensitive structures. Meanwhile, their height tends to be relatively low, loca...
Wind tunnel test results can be influenced by various factors such as the blockage ratio and scaling ratio. These factors may introduce errors in the experimental outcomes, impacting the accuracy and reliability of the data obtained. This study quant...
Due to their soft structure and covering material, plastic greenhouses are vulnerable to wind disasters, causing large-scale damage and huge economic losses. The wind load of greenhouses depends on the surface wind pressure distribution, which is dif...
As the importance of sustainable energy increases, wind power generation systems utilizing wind energy around high-rise buildings are being developed. However, in existing wind turbine systems, it is necessary to solve noise, vibration problems, and...
The non-Gaussian property and its influence on peak factors and extreme wind pressures on the long-span cylindrical roof are studied in this paper. Firstly, the moment-based Hermite polynomial model (HPM), which is used to determine peak factors of n...
This paper discusses the wind loads for designing vaulted free roofs based on a wind tunnel experiment, in which the wind force coefficients for the main wind force resisting system and the peak wind force coefficients for cladding are considered. Th...
Wind pressure coefficients (Cp) are important values for building engineering applications, such as calculation of wind loads or wind-induced air infiltration and especially for tall buildings that are more susceptible to wind forces. Wind pressure c...
A wind tunnel test was conducted to investigate the effects of parapets on the aerodynamic wind loads of roof-mounted solar arrays. The distribution of the mean wind pressure coefficient and the extreme wind pressure coefficient in the solar arrays w...
Wind resistance performance research on the influence of the exterior features of high-rise buildings is an essential part of structure design. In this paper, the wind resistance tests of three high-rise building models with different concavity shape...
A building situated in the flow path of the wind is subjected to differential velocity and pressure distribution around the envelope. Wind effects are influenced by and vary for each individual shape of a tall building. Tall building structures are c...
Local wind pressures on tiny rods of complex grid structures are difficult to obtain through wind tunnel tests due to their small sizes after scaling down, resulting in a lack of data support in wind load calculations for similar structures. However,...
The structural characteristics of open-circuit wind tunnels result in internal static pressure instability, which can affect the accuracy of wind pressure coefficient measurements on rigid models of low-rise buildings. To address this issue, a Pitot...
This study investigates the aerodynamic behavior of roof structures under wind-induced forces, focusing on buildings equipped with photovoltaic panels. Experimental data were obtained through wind tunnel testing of three 1:100 scale models, each repr...
The article presents the results of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of the wind action on liquefied natural gas (LNG) ambient air vaporizers (AAVs). A study concerning AAV with a 6 × 6 tubes array is presented to demonstrate how the...
Spray sprinklers enable to operate at low pressures (<103 kPa) in self-propelled irrigation machines. A number of experiments were performed to characterize the water distribution pattern of an isolated rotator spray plate sprinkler operating at v...
During the on-track acoustic detection process, a potential flow model and an acoustic finite element mathematical model based on synthetic wind are utilized, taking into account the combined effects of vehicle speed, wind direction angle, and crossw...
Wind speed and direction are important parameters in meteorological observation. Solid wind sensor has needed with small Quadcopter for boundary layer meteorological observation. In this paper the principle of a cylindrical two-dimensional wind senso...
In many countries, building airtightness is mandated by national regulations or energy efficiency programs, necessitating accurate measurements using the fan pressurization method. Given the significant influence of wind on measurement uncertainty an...
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