Wind engineering

For earthquake and wind protection, the Taipei 101, Taiwan building has the tuned mass damper.^[1]

Wind engineering studies effects of wind on the buildings and its possible damage or problems to their inhabitants. From the point of structural engineering, it is interested in strong winds, which may cause discomfort, as well as extreme winds, such as in a tornado, hurricane or heavy storm, which may cause widespread destruction.

Wind engineering needs information from meteorology, fluid dynamics, mechanics, and a number of special engineering disciplines including aerodynamics, and structural dynamics. The tools may also include atmospheric models, atmospheric boundary layer, wind tunnels and computational fluid dynamics models.^[2]

Related pages

Notes

↑ Tuned mass damper
↑ "The Burj Dubai tower: Wind Engineering solution" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-30. Retrieved 2011-04-03.

Other websites

International Association for Wind Engineering
American Association of Wind Engineering
UK Wind Engineering Society Archived 2009-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
Wind Energy Technology Centre Archived 2011-03-11 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Tuned mass damper

[2] "The Burj Dubai tower: Wind Engineering solution" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-30. Retrieved 2011-04-03.

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