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Wind‐Induced Discomfort in and Around Buildings
Wind‐induced discomfort is of concern in the context of the serviceability of outdoor areas within a built environment. Certain building and open space configurations may give rise to relatively intense local wind flows. This chapter discusses the development of comfort criteria for the design of tall buildings and considers comfort criteria for pedestrian areas. Database‐assisted design methods can be used for obtaining plots of wind speed versus accelerations for the wind velocities that induce critical building accelerations. High wind speeds occurring at pedestrian level around tall buildings are in general associated with the three types of flow: vortex flows that develop near the ground; corner streams; and air flows through ground floor openings connecting the windward to the leeward side of a building or cross‐flows from the windward side of one building to the leeward side of a neighboring building.
Wind‐Induced Discomfort in and Around Buildings
Wind‐induced discomfort is of concern in the context of the serviceability of outdoor areas within a built environment. Certain building and open space configurations may give rise to relatively intense local wind flows. This chapter discusses the development of comfort criteria for the design of tall buildings and considers comfort criteria for pedestrian areas. Database‐assisted design methods can be used for obtaining plots of wind speed versus accelerations for the wind velocities that induce critical building accelerations. High wind speeds occurring at pedestrian level around tall buildings are in general associated with the three types of flow: vortex flows that develop near the ground; corner streams; and air flows through ground floor openings connecting the windward to the leeward side of a building or cross‐flows from the windward side of one building to the leeward side of a neighboring building.
Wind‐Induced Discomfort in and Around Buildings
Simiu, Emil (author) / Yeo, DongHun (author)
Wind Effects on Structures ; 225-249
2019-02-19
25 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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