Aerodynamic Study of Wind Flow through a Lattice Tower of Angular Section Profiles, Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

Costa, A (Author) Other; Paiva, F (Author) Other; Rui Carneiro de Barros (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MECHANICS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

Pages: 83-87

International Conference on Mechanics and Civil Engineering (ICMCE)

Wuhan, PEOPLES R CHINA, DEC 13-14, 2014

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 0 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00A-7S2

DOI: 10.2991/icmce-14.2014.15

Abstract (EN): The advancement of technological society in general has stimulated in various fields, such as aeronautical civil mechanical naval and offshore engineering, a need to look for more sophisticated structural solutions. In many cases these solutions resort to lattice towers that, in order to meet several functional requirements, result in structures with ever more complex geometries. As such Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) arises as a tool to achieve a quick and economic analysis of wind flow around these structures, thereby overcoming limitations imposed by current codes that do not cover all structure typologies and sectional differences. Thus this work performs an aerodynamic study of a lattice tower, where the displacements and reactions caused by wind action according to Eurocode 1 (EN 1991-1-4) are calculated by the software Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis and compared with results of a CFD analysis.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5