| Title |
Design Guidelines of Elevated Buildings for Antrarctic Environment |
| Abstract |
Antarctica with its flat topography and katabatic phenomena hasone of the highest wind speeds on earth. However, the lack of wind tunnel and full-scale measurements of wind loads on Antarctic buildings has left building designers with inadequate information for the design of Antarctic buildings against wind loading. This paper describes a wind tunnel study which evaluate the wind-induced loads on elevated buildings which were designed for Antarctic use. A 1/50 scale boundary layer wind model over a terrain category type 2 (As 1170-2, 1989)1 was generated Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia. A force balance was used to measure the horizontal and vertical forces on building models. Mean drag and lift coefficients and coefficients of standard deviation of drag and lift are presented for different building configurations and incident wind angeles. |