WIND DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS, INFRASTRUCUTURE AND LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS ALONG THE BEACH ROAD AT VISAKHAPATNAM

Investigating the Effect of Tall Buildings on Tehran City Landscape

Role of Landscape Elements in Ameliorating Adverse Pedestrian Level Winds in the Vicinity of Tall Buildings

ISSN 2277-5056 | © 2012 Bonfring Abstract--Tall buildings cater to the need for increased workspace with a reduced footprint, enhance the skyline, and image and increase the prestige of a city. Tall buildings also tend to intercept upper level high velocity winds and deflect them down to ground level, giving rise to conditions that could be unpleasant or even dangerous to pedestrians. Such acce...

Optimal form of Residential Buildings in Zabul to Control the Accumulation of Wind Pollutants

Problem: Droughts in Zabul have cause the erosion of human habitats, especially in areas exposed to sand accumulation. Creating an optimal urban form can be a way to counteract its destructive effects.Methodology: in this paper, the research method is based on the partial air flow simulation method and the city form survey. The goal is to find the most optimal form of residential buildings to r...

Edge waves along a sloping beach

Standing on a gently sloping straight beach, it is a matter of observation that various waveforms propagate on the surface of the sea. Among these we find edge waves water waves that progress along the shoreline. These waves, often difficult to visualize (this has, probably, prevented the regarding of this waveform as important for a long time), are coastal trapped, i.e. their amplitude is maxi...

Wind Effects on Lowrise Buildings

In the opening decades of wind engineering research and application the typical focus was on the glamorous, highrise structure. These expensive projects could typically afford the high cost of a wind-tunnel study. As the relative cost of these studies has decreased over the last forty years, more conventional architecture has found its way into the wind tunnel. However, it is still quite rare f...