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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/was.2020.30.3.245

Effect of corner modifications on 'Y' plan shaped tall building under wind load  

Sanyal, Prasenjit (Department of Civil Engineering, Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology)
Dalui, Sujit Kumar (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology)
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Wind and Structures / v.30, no.3, 2020 , pp. 245-260 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wind load and responses are the major factors which govern the design norms of tall buildings. Corner modification is one of the most commonly used minor shape modification measure which significantly reduces the wind load and responses. This study presents a comparison of wind load and pressure distribution on different corner modified (chamfered and rounded) Y plan shaped buildings. The numerical study is done by ANSYS CFX. Two turbulence models, k-epsilon and Shear Stress Transport (SST), are used in the simulation of the building and the data are compared with the previous experimental results in a similar flow condition. The variation of the flow patterns, distribution of pressure over the surfaces, force and moment coefficients are evaluated and the results are represented graphically to understand the extent of nonconformities due to corner modifications. Rounded corner shape is proving out to be more efficient in comparing to chamfered corner for wind load reduction. The maximum reduction in the maximum force and moment coefficient is about 21.1% and 19.2% for 50% rounded corner cut.
Keywords
computational fluid dynamics; corner modifications; force coefficient and moment coefficient;
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