Wind tunnel testing overview

Tekla Structural Designer
2021
Tekla Structural Designer

Wind tunnel testing overview

There are four steps required in the process of using Tekla Structural Designer design within the process of wind tunnel testing.

  1. Tekla Structural Designer creates a “Tekla Structural Designer - Wind Tunnel Report” from a vibration analysis to be used by the wind specialists.

    See: Exporting wind tunnel data workflow

  2. The “Tekla Structural Designer - Wind Tunnel Report” is sent to the wind specialists who undertake the wind tunnel tests. At the end of the tests, they create a “Wind Tunnel - Load Report” which they send back to the structural designer.

  3. The designer manipulates the “Wind Tunnel - Load Report” to generate 24 loadcases with FDir1, FDir2 & MZ loads applied to the centres of mass of the rigid diaphragms at each floor/level.

    See: Using imported wind tunnel information

  4. The 24 wind loadcases are combined in regular combinations to be included as part of the design process in Tekla Structural Designer

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