Heat transfer between the surface of a building and its surroundings constitutes a substantial proportion of its annual heating energy demand and is made up of radiative and convective components. As the convective component of heat transfer varies with wind speed, a series of experimental measurements were made on a building to estimate the value of the convective heat transfer under a range of wind conditions. A low-rise building was used for the measurements, and strong correlations were obtained between the wind speed and the convective heat transfer coefficient. These results were analysed on a directional basis and with respect to the location of the wind speed measurements, and a series of correlations are presented which compare well with existing data. In conjunction with accurate wind speed data, they can be used to make more realistic estimates of heat transfer from a building. 相似文献
This study focuses on the correlations between the structural dynamic properties and the instantaneous response characteristics of a 492-m high building during a typhoon. An instantaneous analysis framework is established based on a combined usage of both linear-phase filtering and time–frequency techniques. This analysis framework can separate each modal response contribution without phase distortions. Random decrement technique is used to estimate the modal damping ratios. It is found that beating phenomenon widely exists in the separated modal response contributions, and the damping ratios correlate with the modulation of phase and amplitude within the beating closely. When the beating amplitude comes close to zero, the instantaneous frequency fluctuates evidently. The more intensive this fluctuation is, the larger the damping ratio becomes. An empirical model is presented to formulate the variations of damping ratio and natural frequency of this building with the fluctuation intensity of the instantaneous frequency. 相似文献
The study of the response of wind-loaded flexible structures generates several problems, related to the collection of significant experimental data and the modelling of the random wind velocity field, fluid-structure interaction and actual structural behaviour. This paper presents some results of recent research on these problems.
The first part of the paper tackles the modelling and simulation of wind velocity and presents the treatment of some direct measurements on the site of an important broadcasting antenna located on Monte Nerone (Appennine Mountains) on the Italia watershed, 1500 m above sea level.
The second part deals with the problem of determining structural response under wind loading. Because of the impracticability of operating in the frequency domain in the presence of non-linearities, simulation and direct step-by-step integration in the time domain have been chosen. Two specific examples are presented, both pertaining to guyed antennas, for which non-linearities have been shown to be significant. The effects of ice formations on the mast and / orthe stays have also been investigated. 相似文献
Quarter-scale tests of ten full-scale room fire tests were conducted by using an existing scaling technique developed at the National Bureau of Standards. Test results confirmed earlier studies which showed that, under constant fire exposure conditions, quarter-scale room testing ranked interior finish materials in the same order as did full-scale tests based on their times to achieve room flashover. In general, quarter-scale tests were less severe and took longer to reach peak room fire buildup because of a lower convective and radiative heat transfer in the quarter-scale room. These tests also generated more CO per unit mass of material and experienced lower combustion efficiencies than did their corresponding full-scale tests. 相似文献
This paper presents the field measurement results of the wind effects on two super-tall buildings (having height over 400 m) in Hong Kong during the passage of Typhoon Nesat in 2011. The field data such as wind speed, wind direction, structural acceleration and displacement responses were simultaneously recorded during the typhoon. Detailed analysis of the field data was conducted to investigate the wind field over an urban area, structural dynamic properties and wind-induced responses of the super-tall buildings. The typhoon-generated wind characteristics including turbulence intensity, gust factor and power spectral density of fluctuating wind speed were presented and discussed. The acceleration responses were analysed by Fourier transform to represent an averaged perspective over the records. Then, the wavelet transform was used to present time-frequency energy distributions of the structural vibrations. Instantaneous spectra were also presented for further discussions of the non-stationary signals. A high-pass Kaiser FIR digital filter was adopted to eliminate the multipath effects on the displacement responses recorded by global positioning system. Then, the resonant and background responses as well as their contributions to the total displacements were identified. Damping ratios of the high-rise structures were evaluated by the random decrement technique, which demonstrated amplitude-dependent characteristics. Finally, the serviceability performance of the super-tall buildings under wind actions with different return periods was estimated. 相似文献