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Experimental wind pressure database of low-rise and H-shaped buildings

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Wind tunnel pressure coefficient database for three H-shaped and low-rise buildings. Useful for wind load and CFD validation.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.8257276
Licence
CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.
Size
2 MB

How to cite

Carvalho, T. A. M. D., Silva, F. V. M. D., Bre, F., Gimenez, J. M., & Labaki, L. C. (2023). Experimental wind pressure database of low-rise and H-shaped buildings [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8257276

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Details

Resource
Measurements
Method
Wind tunnel
Geometry
Single building
Topic
Wind loads & pedestrian wind
Quantities
Pressure / Cp
Year
2023
Creators
Talita Andrioli Mediniha de Carvalho; Fernando Vítor Marques da Silva; Facundo Bre; Juan M. Gimenez; Lucila Chebel Labaki
Institution
CIMEC; LNEC; Unicamp

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