Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- On the reliability of gust loading factors
- In
- Civil Engineering Transactions
- Imprint
- vol. CE13, no. 1, Institution of Engineers Australia, Apr 1971, pp. 1-9
- Description
Paper No. 2918, submitted by the author on 6th April, 1970. The author, B. J. Vickery, MEngSc PhD MIEAust, is Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney; formerly Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
[This paper was awarded the 1971 W. H. Warren Memorial Prize, and the 1971 R. W. Chapman Medal]
- Abstract
While the dynamic action of wind on tall buildings, towers and other structures has been of some concern to structural engineers for many years, there have been few references to this action in the various building codes. This omission can be explained, in part, by the absence of comparatively simple analyses or rules which would provide a reliable indication of the severity of dynamic action. Attempts to formulate such a set of rules have recently been made by Davenport (1967), Vickery (1966), and Velozzi and Cohen (1968). The aim of all three of these attempts has been the definition of a "gust factor" to be applied to the steady wind forces in order to account for dynamic action.
It is the object of this paper to examine the accuracy of the simplified "gust factor" approach to the assessment of wind loads.