Interference effects of an adjacent tall building with various sizes on local wind forces acting on a tall building

Abstract

This article focuses on variations of local wind forces along height levels of a tall building due to an adjacent tall building with various height and breadth ratios through huge wind tunnel experiments. It deals with the characteristics of local wind forces including root mean square local wind force coefficients, non-dimensional power spectra, and root coherences along height levels of a tall building with an adjacent tall building in critical locations. It is shown that increases of over 20% in interference factors (MIF_MD, RIF_MD, and RIF_ML) for maximum mean and root mean square base overturning moment coefficients in along- and across-wind directions occur when the adjacent building is close to the principal building. Higher and wider adjacent buildings can cause not only higher mean wind loads but also higher dynamic wind loads in along- and across-wind directions, but the critical locations of an adjacent building with various height and breadth ratios are somewhat different. However, most critical locations of an adjacent building for wind-induced wind loads are within the region (X/B, Y/B) = (1.5, 0–1.5).