Alan G. Davenport Wind Engineering Group

alan g . Davenport wind Engineering Group The Boundary Layer wind Tunnel Laboratory wind TUNNEL TESTING: A GENERAL OUTLINE May 2007 The University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Engineering Science London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9; Tel: (519) 661-3338; Fax: (519) 661-3339 Internet: ; E-mail: wind TUNNEL TESTING: - i - alan g . Davenport wind Engineering Group A GENERAL OUTLINE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 THE MODELLING OF THE SITE AND THE wind 2 General 2 Scaling 2 3 THE CLADDING LOADS TESTS 3 Pressures and Suctions on Exterior Surfaces 3 Scaling 3 Internal Pressures and Differential Pressures 3 4 THE DETERMINATION OF OVERALL STRUCTURAL LOADS AND RESPONSES 4 Introduction 4 The Force Balance Test 4 The Two-degree-of-freedom Aeroelastic Test 5 The Multi-degree-of-freedom Aeroelastic Test 5 Overall Loads from Local Pressure Measurements 6 Effective Static Force Distribution 6 Load Combination Factors 7 5 THE PEDESTRIAN LEVEL wind SPEED TEST 8 6 THE TESTING OF LONG SPAN BRIDGES 9 7 OTHER TESTS 10 REFERENCES 11 APPENDIX A A-1 THE DEFINITION OF wind CLIMATE A-1 Introduction A-1 Natural wind A-1 Availability of wind Records

WIND TUNNEL TESTING: - i - Alan G. Davenport Wind Engineering Group A GENERAL OUTLINE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 THE MODELLING OF THE SITE AND THE WIND 2

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