Experimental and Numerical Study of Wind-Pressure Distribution on Irregular-Plan-Shaped Building
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 7
Abstract
This paper presents a detailed study on an E-plan-shaped (asymmetry about both plan axes) building under wind excitation (wind angles varied from 0° to 330° at an interval of 30°). This study is conducted by the wind-tunnel procedure and by utilizing the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique numerically. The numerical study is performed using the and shear stress transport (SST) models. The pressure contours and mean pressure coefficients of all the faces are computed by both approaches. The results show a good agreement between the experimentally and numerically computed results. The SST model performed better in comparison with the model for computing the mean pressure coefficients. The maximum positive and negative mean pressures of some faces of the building are found at skew wind angles. Additionally, a comparative study of the pressure variation with a symmetrical E-plan-shaped building (having the same cross-section area) is conducted in this paper. This study has shown that a drastic increment in the pressure variation is noticed for both the maximum positive and negative mean pressure coefficients due to a small aerodynamic modification.
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Volume 146 • Issue 7 • July 2020
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Received: Nov 19, 2018
Accepted: Jan 29, 2020
Published online: Apr 30, 2020
Published in print: Jul 1, 2020
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