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Prescriptive Design Standards for Resilience of Canadian Housing in High Winds
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2020 High-wind events cause significant damage to structures and property; in particular, light-frame wood homes are especially vulnerable and are the most abundant housing type in North America.
Sarah A. Stevenson +2 more
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Shock and Vibration, 2021 This study aims to estimate the wind loads acting on a tower structure by comparing and reviewing design codes and the results of wind tunnel tests. To this end, the modal properties of the tower were identified through short-term on-site measurements of
Seungho Lee, Sooyong Kim, Soon-Duck Kwon
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2021 In this study, a large-eddy simulation (LES) is conducted to investigate meandering airflows generated throughout the underbody of a real-shaped train model in open air.
Koji NAKADE +2 more
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Causal Effect of Leading-Edge Sawtooth Configuration on Flow Field Characteristics and Aerodynamic Losses in the Supersonic Compressor Cascade [PDF]
Journal of Applied Fluid MechanicsThis study focuses on the TM-141 supersonic compressor blade as the subject of investigation. Utilizing the Reynolds-averaged numerical simulation approach, the study examines the impact of the leading-edge sawtooth structure on the blade grid, flow ...
S. J. Hu, Z. J. Wei, M. Ni, G. M. Ren
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Design of stick-framed wood roofs under tornado wind loads
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 Light-frame wood construction comprises nearly 90% of the housing industry in Canada and the United States. The roofs of these houses can be constructed either entirely on site or using prefabricated trusses.
Caspar L. D. Bain +4 more
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Effects of Topside Structures and Wind Profile on Wind Tunnel Testing of FPSO Vessel Models
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 This study examined the effects of wind loads on a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, focusing in particular on the impact of the turbulent wind profiles, the level of details of the topside structures, and the operation modes of ...
Seungho Lee, Sanghun Lee, Soon-Duck Kwon
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Aerofoil behaviour at high angles of attack and at Reynolds numbers appropriate for small wind turbines [PDF]
, 2014 The aerodynamic characteristics of a NACA0018 aerofoil have been investigated experimentally for incidence angles ranging from 0° to 180° in closed-jet and open-jet wind tunnels with different blockage coefficients at Reynolds numbers from 60,000 to 140 ...
Dominy, Robert G +3 more
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Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2012 The paper analyzes an educational wind tunnel produced by the Department of Building Energetics (DBE) of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The equipment could be used for performing laboratory works and simple research. The article presents the projection of inflow and outlet velocity in the working chamber of DBE wind tunnel and carries out ...
Bielskus, Juozas +1 more
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Wind-tunnel investigation of icing of an inclined cylinder [PDF]
, 2010 The effects of varying the angle of wind velocity and axis of a cylindrical icing object around all of the three mutually perpendicular axes are studied experimentally.
Kollar, László E., Farzaneh, Masoud
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Assessment of Rainfall Variability over Karnataka state in India
Natural Hazards ResearchKarnataka state situated in the southern part of India is surrounded by a long coast line and western ghat mountain regions on the western side. The rainfall distribution shows a large variability in different parts of the state.
Krushna Chandra Gouda +3 more
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