Wind Tunnel Testing of High-Rise Buildings

by Peter Irwin, Roy Denoon, David Scott

Since the 1960s, wind tunnel testing has become a commonly used tool in the design of tall buildings. It was pioneered, in large part, during the design of the World Trade Center Towers in New York. Since those early days of wind engineering, wind tunnel testing techniques have developed in sophistication, but these techniques are not widely understood by the designers using the results. As a direct result, the CTBUH Wind Engineering Working Group...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138470430
• ISBN13: 9781138470439
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 48 Pages