The mismatch of the turbulence spectra due to the violation of the geometric scaling has led to a large variability in the reported wind load measurements from different wind tunnel experiments. For instance, a comparison of the maximum pressure coefficients on a cubic building model reported from ...
The model or object is often placed on a turntable or a rotating mobile platform to allow studies of wind impact from multiple directions. The wind tunnels are made for testing and predicting wind load for all kinds of structures moving through air or affected by wind force: bridges, vessels...
Thunderstorm wind load evaluation on storm shelters using wind tunnel testing 2022, Engineering Structures Citation Excerpt : To date, limited studies have been conducted on downburst-induced aerodynamic forces on storm shelters. However, if storm shelters are considered low-rise buildings with high imp...
the physical on-scale model of the building is designed based on the most common low-rise buildings in China. The size of the physical on-scale mountain model is based on the “Load code for the design of building structures (GB 50009–2012)”, which encloses the design of ...
Exterior view of the starboard main column with the pontoon termination in an extreme load case “Considering the requirements surrounding wind energy and the complexities of the architecture as a whole, product development would have been much more difficult without the support of the Ansys Startup...
This schematic of the development of the rear inflow jet shows how winds on the backside of a thunderstorm are enhances by small scale horizontal rolls on the backside of a developing line. Detecting Hail A radar still shot of a hail spike, which shows up as weak radar reflectivity jutting ...
The level of load fluctuations for the non-actuated turbine at this optimal tip-speed ratio is low and is not a concern for the safe operation of the turbine. If we do not want to risk increasing the level of load fluctuations, we can opt for solutions on the lower branch of the ...
To carry out the wind-resistance performance analysis, the wind load on the building surface must be determined first. The wind load is related to the basic wind pressure, terrain, ground roughness, and building height and shape. In theChinese Load Code for the Design of Building Structures(th...
The presented examples in these investigations include the prediction of: the deflection of a cantilever beam with five holes under a concentrated load at the tip. [46,45]; the required shooting force of an archery bow [26]; the steady-state temperature of a CPU cooled by polymer heat ...
on a recently developed wind and pressure field model that captures the main features of tornadoes, which is used to generate a large number of tornado wind and pressure field realisations from which values of particular load effects can be determined. A cumulative distribution function of load ...