Advanced and Robust Analysis of Wind Effects
Advanced and Robust Analysis of Wind Effects
Windtech Consultants is proud to have undertaken the wind engineering services for this impressive $350m project by Emirates-Morocco Trading & General Investment. Windtech worked closely with Singapore based Surbana International Consultants who were the lead consultants together with Meinhardt engineering consultants back in 2008.
Windtech Director, Tony Rofail says “It is certainly good to see this interesting building emerge after such a long time”. The building exhibited minimal resonant structural response to the ultimate design wind loads due to its efficient form. Peak accelerations, which are a measure of the effect of building motion on occupant comfort were also very low for the same reason, which is a very good outcome.
Windtech Consultants also undertook studies of the façade cladding pressures and wind environment impacts.
Windtech Consultants recently completed a wind tunnel study for a pedestrian bridge in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Testing was carried out using both a dynamic and a static test rig. It is sufficient for this type of bridge to perform a test on a typical section model, incorporating the relative stiffness in both torsion and lift in the dynamic test rig. Windtech modelled all the aerodynamic properties of the bridge section down to the effect of the porous fence on the sides. Additionally, the dynamic properties were correctly modelled based on the latest dynamic properties. The dynamic test rig showed that there are no aerodynamic instabilities for wind speeds up to the equivalent of a once in 10,000 year event.
We were informed that the main suspended cable and hangars are to be regarded as non-structural. Nevertheless, the effect of these as well as the towers were included in the final load cases.
Windtech Consultants has demonstrated its advanced modelling capability once more with the completion of the wind tunnel study of the extreme wind loads on the 107m (305ft) tall Shiva Statue structure as well as the measurement of the cladding pressures. The structural loads study was carried out using both the pressure integration and force balance techniques – both of which shows remarkably good agreement. To add to the complexity, the statue includes a trident held from the base and having the form of a 58m high mast.
The site for the statue is Nathdwara in the state of Rajasthan, India. The site is approximately 500km south-west of New Delhi and 600km north of Mumbai. It is proposed that the statue will be constructed within a newly landscaped parkland and that the statue will be positioned on the top of a ridgeline. The statue will be constructed from a concrete skin over steel framework. A sprayed metal finish will be then applied to the concrete. The trident will be constructed from a concrete staff and the head of the trident is a metal skin over a steel frame.
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Tony Rofail, director at Windtech has contributed to a magazine article on Swaying Skyscrapers.
For details refer to the link https://sourceable.net/swaying-skyscrapers-battle-wind/# or download the PDF
Windtech Consultants were featured in a recent article by www.sourceable.net on the role of wind tunnel testing for pedestrian comfort.
The full article can be found in the following link:
https://sourceable.net/wind-tunnels-can-help-ensure-pedestrian-comfort/
The article features a recent project undertaken by Windtech for a tower development in Melbourne.
The project The Sovereign Square Project at 545 Station Street is located on a small hill in Melbourne’s outer eastern suburb of Box Hill.
Windtech Consultants worked closely with the Buchan Group in Melbourne to virtually reshape the podium of this significant and exposed tower development to ameliorate its impact at street level, without significantly impacting the architecture.
