Abstract: The paper presents the results of a study that investigated the effects of wall porosity, inlet-to-outlet-ratio, opening location, and blockage on internal pressure in buildings with large façade openings located on opposite ...

Abstract: A comprehensive experimental study of local wind pressure fluctuations on low building roofs has been carried out, by testing a variety of building models exposed to open and suburban boundary-layer flows for various wind ...

Abstract: The impact of topography on design wind speed is addressed in current building codes and design standards by providing “speed-up” ratios for limited cases of terrain geometries. This paper proposes a combined numerical–neural ...

Abstract: This paper presents wind tunnel measurements of pedestrian wind conditions in passages between various configurations of two long narrow perpendicular buildings in open country exposure. The investigated parameters are ...

Abstract: This paper reviews the current state of the art in the numerical evaluation of wind flow over different types of topographies. Numerical simulations differing from one another by the type of numerical formulation followed, ...

Abstract: The Venturi effect refers to the increase in fluid speed due to a decrease of the flow section in confined flows. The wind speed conditions in converging and diverging passages between perpendicular buildings are studied ...

Abstract: This technical note describes how full-scale observations of external pressure coefficients for a single storey industrial building located in Quebec City, Canada compared with matched scale at 1:200 wind tunnel measurements. ...

Abstract: Exterior doors and entrances of nonresidential buildings are major sources of energy losses caused by air infiltration or exfiltration due to the frequent use of doors and the pressure difference across each door, created ...

Abstract: Light-frame wooden buildings are highly complex and redundant structural systems that behave as assemblies of folded and interlocked rib-stiffened plate systems. This paper describes structural monitoring experiments on ...