Volume Title | Wind Engineering |
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Volume No | Mean loads on structures - rectangular-section cylinders, paraboloidal antennas, wind-tunnel blockage. |
DATA Title | Mean fluid forces and moments on rectangular prisms: surface-mounted structures in turbulent shear flow. |
DATA Item | 80003 |
KEYWORD | block, bluff, body, building, centre, crosswind, cube, cylinder, drag, flow, fluid, force, lift, moment, overturning, prism, pressure, rectangular, section, shear, sideforce, square, structure, torsion, wind, center |
ISBN | 0 85679 285 3 |
ABSTRACT | ESDU 80003 provides information for estimating the mean forces and moments on surface-mounted rectangular prisms in turbulent shear flow, typically a rectangular building in the natural wind. The prism shapes covered have cross-sections with side ratios in the range 0.25 to 4 and height/width ratios greater than 0.25. Flows with turbulence intensities up to 20 per cent are covered and data for flows for turbulence length scale/prism side up to 2 and velocity profile exponents up to 0.34 were included in the correlation. A Calculation Sheet provides a step-by-step procedure for calculating forces and moments and a worked example illustrates its use. |