low rise building

Describes experiments carried out by the Danish Maritime Institute using data from the Aylesbury experiments of the UK Building Research Establishment. The simulation of the standard rural terrain and the Aylesbury terrain was achieved by mea

This paper reviews the most recent research on wind loads on low-rise buildings. Novel measurement techniques and methodologies are reviewed, and selected experimental results from various studies are presented. Particular emphasis is given to works aimed at the formulation of codified data, ie,results appropriate for incorporation into design standards and codes of practice. Only either full-scale studies or those done under conditions simulating the earth's atmospheric boundary layer have been considered. Comparisons between full-scale and laboratory results are discussed.

One of a series of investigations of the improper functioning of ventilation and smoke stacks. The problem is essentially one of town planning in which the layout of low and high rise buildings can cause unknown influences at the outlet of vertical stacks on low rise buildings. The study concerns thepressure distribution on and above the roof of a low rise building upwind or downwind of a high rise building as a function of the separation between them for various heights of the high rise buildings.

Describes an analytical model for the prediction of ventilation rates and internal temperatures as influenced by the combined effects of heat dissipation inside industrial buildings and natural wind action. Applies this to a two span low building equipped with a natural ventilation system. Results emphasize the relative importance of thermal and dynamic variables including wind incidence, terrain roughness, and the role of the opening in the internal partition wall.

Conducts a study of wind loading of low buildings, based on models of several different heights, lengths and roof slopes, and includes roofs with and wthout eaves and both open country and urban exposures. This forms the basis of the National Building Code of Canada.

Describes a comprehensive investigation undertaken to determine the wind pressures on surfaces of models of typical low-rise buildings. For many practical applications building surfaces like facade coverings or tiled roofs are permeable. For those coverings the pressure equilibration across thepermeable surface is important when determining the net windload. Gives a survey of the physical parameters influencing the windload of permeable surface coverings. Presents results of a continuing study of the wind load on permeable facade coverings.

Describes results from wind-tunnel tests on models of the Building Research Establishment's experimental building at Aylesbury. The use of several scale models of this building in uniform and in simulated atmospheric boundary-layer flows together with the results from the full-scale experiments allow an assessment of the effect of variations in the ratio of the longitudinal- turbulence integral length scale to body dimension.

States that one of the major difficulties in estimating air infiltration rates in buildings is lack of full scale data on pressure distribution on various structural shapes located in different types of surface roughness category. Tries to fill this gap by studying two building structures of different shapes and situated in different environments, registering the mean pressure distribution and calculating the rate of air leakage due to openings. The first house is of old type construction and in a `semi-urban' environment.