Mitigating Wind Damage Caused by Internal Pressures
Research outputs and artefacts
27 Aug 2019
A broken door or window during a windstorm allows wind to enter the building and push on the roof and walls, increasing the load on the structure. This project is improving existing techniques which characterize these loads by analyzing internal pressures measured in a wind tunnel model and Full-Scale buildings with different types of openings, volumes, porosity etc. The results are incorporated into a central model which can predict internal pressures with more accuracy than ever before.