Using imported wind tunnel information

Tekla Structural Designer
2020
Tekla Structural Designer

Using imported wind tunnel information

The Tekla Structural Designer workflow for importing and using the wind tunnel information provided by wind specialists is as follows:

Create loadcases for the diaphragm loads

The wind tunnel report typically contains 24 loadcases with FDir1, FDir2 & MZ loads applied to the centres of mass of the rigid diaphragms at each floor/level.

Before the loads can be imported from the report, the engineer has to manually create wind loadcases to hold them.

Apply the diaphragm loads in each loadcase

Diaphragm loads can either be pasted into Tekla Structural Designer or entered manually.

Note: Diaphragm loads can only be pasted at floors/levels with one or more horizontal rigid or semi rigid diaphragm.

See: Diaphragm loads and diaphragm load tables

Create load combinations

Load combinations are created manually. The Wind Tunnel loadcases behave as any other "Wind" type loadcase when being used in combinations.

Analysis and design

A standard analysis and design process is followed, in which:

  • the graphical analysis results for wind tunnel loadcases and combinations being shown in exactly the same way as for any other wind type loadcases and combination,
  • wind tunnel loadcases are used in drift checks in the same way as other wind type loadcases,
  • wind tunnel loadcases are used in design combinations in the same way as other wind type loadcases.
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