Investigation on Wind Tunnel Blockage Effects of High-Rise Building

Abstract:

As the significant difference in wind tunnel data between two scaled models of a practical engineering, the cause of this difference, which was regarded as blockage effect, was analyzed in this paper. Research shows that, for wind tunnel test with more surrounding buildings, blockage effect may result in serious data distortion, especially for lateral wind pressure, and existing correction method does not possess universality. Moreover, blockage ratio, as a global concept, is not appropriate to evaluate blockage effect of wind tunnel pressure data at different parts of building models. This study has reference value for blockage effect of wind tunnel pressure date in practical engineering.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 477-478)
• Pages: 793-796
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.477-478.793
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Huan Tang, Lei Wang*
• Keywords: Blockage Effect, Rectangular High-Rise Building, Wind Pressure Coefficient, Wind Tunnel Test

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