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EFEITO DO ENTORNO URBANO SOBRE AS AÇÕES DO VENTO EM EDIFÍCIOS

@inproceedings{Bortoli2005EFEITODE,
  title={EFEITO DO ENTORNO URBANO SOBRE AS AÇ{\~O}ES DO VENTO EM EDIF{\'I}CIOS},
  author={Mario Eduardo De Bortoli},
  year={2005}
}

• Mario Eduardo De Bortoli
• Published 2005
• Environmental Science

DE BORTOLI, M. E. –Influence of the urban environment on wind loads on buildings. Dissertação de Doutorado – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 2005. In this research work a methodology to determine loads on tall structures located in urban centres is proposed. The proposal is based in wind tunnel tests and considers a random distribution of the surface environment. As this study deals with the determination of wind loads on structures located in urban centres, firstly the background wind velocity field, characterized by a suburban terrain, which is defined by the Brazilian code of practice NBR/6123 as a terrain of Category IV, had to be reproduced. Thereafter, the near environment of the model under study was added. In order to take into account the variations of loads caused by the random environment, the structures that shape it were dimensioned using the Monte Carlo technique. A procedure to reproduce the surface neighbouring in central areas of large cities considering the random nature of both size and distribution of buildings is presented. This procedure allows simulating either random fields or processes, in this case the neighbouring, which is defined as a three-dimensional random field, in terms of both its probability density and its spectral density. The structure of the lower part of the urban boundary layer was studied by means of measurements at different heights of both fluctuating and mean velocities, turbulence intensity, integral macroscale and time scale of turbulence, and spectra of the longitudinal fluctuating velocity component. It is widely accepted in the literature that verifying that the Reynold stresses increases with height is sufficient to prove the existence of the rough sublayer in a boundary layer over rough surface. As in this work Reynolds stresses were not measured, it was possible to distinguish the presence of a roughness surface through measurements and comparisons of mean velocities and statistical values of the longitudinal fluctuating component of the mean flow at different heights. It was verified that the velocity field in an urban centre is clearly three-dimensional and that the direction of the background wind has influence on the velocity field. Furthermore, a power spectrum for the dynamic analysis of tall buildings exposed to wind in urban environments is suggested as well as guidelines regarding the variation of both the velocity and turbulence intensity of the longitudinal component of the turbulence. Loads over two models were studied in order to analyse the reliability of the loads suggested by codes of Argentina e Brasilero. The models had different heights and loads were measured with the models isolated and in six situations of different rough urban environments. The loads that were measured were longitudinal-to-the-mean-flow and transversal-to-themean-flow bending and torsion moments. With these results it was possible to assess the differences with regard to loads suggested by the code NBR 6123 and CIRSOC 102 and the variations appearing when changing the surface roughness.