Database-Assisted Design of Low-Rise Buildings: Aerodynamic Considerations for a Practical Interpolation Scheme
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 132, Issue 6
Abstract
Database-assisted design (DAD) is becoming a realistic possibility whereby archived wind pressure time series on building envelopes from wind tunnel experiments are directly used in structural analysis software for building design. In order for DAD to be of practical use, a data handling system is required. The main task of the system is to perform interpolation in order to obtain wind pressure time series beyond the basic configurations available in the database. The functional dependence of the pressure coefficients is reduced to geometric variables only, greatly simplifying the process of interpolation. It is shown that all interpolation schemes require estimation of the first and second order statistical moments.
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Acknowledgments
Financial support is gratefully acknowledged from NIST/TTU for obtaining the experimental data, NSERC for student support and the Canada Research Chairs Program for general support of the first writer. The writers would like to thank Dr. D. Surry, Dr. T.C.E. Ho, and Dr. R. J. Martinuzzi for many hours of useful discussions and Dr. Ho, in particular, for his help with the data handling. The ongoing support from Dr. E. Simiu and Dr. K. Mehta for database development and analysis is also greatly appreciated.NIST
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 132 • Issue 6 • June 2006
Pages: 909 - 917
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Received: Jun 30, 2004
Accepted: May 10, 2005
Published online: Jun 1, 2006
Published in print: Jun 2006
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