Krisztián Hincz , Sherly Joanna Pool-Blanco , Márton Balczó
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Abstract
The design of tensile membrane structures requires the determination of the wind induced pressure distribution on their unique anticlastic surface. Design codes, however, only provide pressure coefficients for more conventional wall and roof shapes. The current paper presents the wind tunnel test and load analysis of a common arch-supported tensile roof shape by wind tunnel tests on a rigid small-scale model. At wind directions parallel or almost parallel to the arches, trip wires were applied to model high (supercritical) Re-number flow. Besides the detailed experimental methodology and conditions description, the evaluated results are introduced, including pressure coefficient distributions and the membrane forces for various wind directions. Based on the experimental pressure coefficients, simplified pressure coefficient maps were also determined for each roof zone for six wind directions for design purposes.
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The objective of the journal is to provide a means for the publication and interchange of information, on an international basis, on all those aspects of wind engineering that are included in the activities of the International Association for Wind Engineering http://www.iawe.org/. These are: social and economic impact of wind effects; wind characteristics and structure, local wind environments, wind loads and structural response, diffusion, pollutant dispersion and matter transport, wind effects on building heat loss and ventilation, wind effects on transport systems, aerodynamic aspects of wind energy generation, and codification of wind effects.
Papers on these subjects describing full-scale measurements, wind-tunnel simulation studies, computational or theoretical methods are published, as well as papers dealing with the development of techniques and apparatus for wind engineering experiments.