Characteristics of surface wind pressures on low-rise building located among large group of surrounding buildings

Engineering Structures

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-28

  Kim, Yong Chul ^a   Yoshida, Akihito ^a   Tamura, Yukio ^a  

^a TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplification effect; Local wind speed profile; Low rise building; Urban street canyon; Wind pressure coefficient

Indexed keywords

AREA DENSITY; FLUCTUATING COMPONENTS; ISOLATED BUILDINGS; LARGE GROUPS; LOCAL WIND SPEED PROFILE; LOW-RISE BUILDINGS; MEAN PRESSURES; MEASUREMENT POINTS; MINIMUM VALUE; SUBURBAN AREAS; SURFACE WINDS; SURROUNDING BUILDINGS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; URBAN STREET CANYON; WIND PRESSURE COEFFICIENT; WIND PRESSURES;

BUILDINGS;

WIND EFFECTS;

AMPLIFICATION; BUILDING; STREET CANYON; SUBURBAN AREA; SURFACE WIND; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84855466071     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.10.024     Document Type: Article

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