• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.615-623
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• 2015

Estimation of wind load on bridges is one of the most important aspects in designing bridges in coastal region. Various design codes and researches have suggested the procedure to estimate design wind speed; however, they do not match one another due to many reasons such as incomplete data set, ignorance of wind environment and so on. For this reason, the necessity of guideline for estimation procedure of basic wind speed which reflect the roughness of surface and the topographical effect have been increasing. In this study, we have analysed limitations of the basic wind speed of nationwide suggested by Korea Building code(AIK, 2009) and Highway bridge design code(MOLTMA, 2010). In additional, we set forth guidelines considering the roughness of land surface and the topographical effect. Using the procedure, the basic wind speed were estimated for 15 coastal regions in Korea and compared with those listed in the existing codes.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.64-69
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• 2011

Integrating wind energy systems into building design is a small but growing trend, and high riese with their elevated wind speeds seem particularly suited to the technology. This paper deal with building-integrated wind turbine design. It thus contains two topics: wind energy and building design. Several building-integerated wind turbine design have been categorized and reviewed.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.1-6
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• 2013

This study presents the analysis of temporal and spatial distribution of occurrences of wind gust over Korea from 2002 to 2009. The events during typhoons are excluded and the topographical effects on the wind speed are also corrected using KBC (2005). As the results, the frequency of the occurrences is as high as 286 and the higher occurrences appear mainly along the coastal area. This study also shows that the uncertainty of the appearance of wind gust during thunderstorm is much higher than in synoptic wind by comparing wind speed records for both events. This study also found that the spatial distribution of cumulative cloud quotient is closely correlated to that of occurrences of thunderstorm wind gust, which suggests the possible utilization of the cloud quotient as weighting factors in assessing wind gust risk.