Performance-based design framework for 3D coupled wind-induced response of tall buildings in turbulent winds
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Caracoglia, Luca (Committee member)
Muftu, Sinan (Committee member)
Myers, Andrew (Committee member)
Wang, Ming (Committee member)
Literature data results, combined with experimental results from wind tunnel tests conducted at Northeastern University, are presented and employed in conjunction with state-of-the-art aerodynamic theory to examine a special loading case on a reference tall building, the Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council (CAARC) benchmark building. Furthermore, the hurricane activities on the North Atlantic Ocean and hurricane impact on the US eastern coastline are simulated using random hurricane path and random hurricane intensity program.
The above-described components (or modules) will be combined to build the performance-based analysis framework. The main features of the framework are: examination of wind loading variability through wind tunnel error analysis, synthetic simulation of hurricane path to predict the joint probability of wind speed and wind direction at a given site (with a focus on warming climate), assessment of the intervention costs due to wind-induced damage on the structure (life-cycle assessment).
wind engineering
performance-based analysis framework
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