Compensation of high-frequency components of wind load by wind tunnel testing

To analyze the wind-induced response of structures wind tunnel tests are often carried out to determine the wind loads on structures However due to the influence of similarity requirements in wind tunnel tests the resulting data from the model test still needs to be translated by similarity rules for predicting the real loads on prototype structures During this process an inevitable result is that the high-frequency components of fluctuating wind loads get lost which leads to some unexpected errors in the subsequent wind-Induced response analysis To solve this problem a frequency compensation method is put forward The purpose of this method is to reconstruct the high-frequency part of fluctuating wind loads based on experimental data and some basic principles of the aerodynamics of bluff bodies The causes and effects of the frequency compensation problem are discussed first then a practical method of frequency compensation is proposed by combining the fluctuating wind energy spectrum theory and the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition technique Based on this method the wind-induced response of a single-layer reticulated shell is analyzed to show the validity and necessity of this method (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved