Aerodynamic and aero-elastic performances of super-large cooling towers

Lin Zhao,Xu Chen,Shitang Ke,Yaojun Ge 한국풍공학회 2014 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.19 No.4

Hyperbolic thin-shell cooling towers have complicated vibration modes, and are very sensitive to the effects of group towers and wind-induced vibrations. Traditional aero-elastic models of cooling towers are usually designed based on the method of stiffness simulation by continuous medium thin shell materials. However, the method has some shortages in actual engineering applications, so the so-called “equivalent beam-net design method” of aero-elastic models of cooling towers is proposed in the paper and an aero-elastic model with a proportion of 1: 200 based on the method above with integrated pressure measurements and vibration measurements has been designed and carried out in TJ-3 wind tunnel of Tongji university. According to the wind tunnel test, this paper discusses the impacts of self-excited force effect on the surface wind pressure of a large-scale cooling tower and the results show that the impact of self-excited force on the distribution characteristics of average surface wind pressure is very small, but the impact on the form of distribution and numerical value of fluctuating wind pressure is relatively large. Combing with the Complete Quadratic Combination method (hereafter referred to as CQC method), the paper further studies the numerical sizes and distribution characteristics of background components, resonant components, cross-term components and total fluctuating wind-induced vibration responses of some typical nodes which indicate that the resonance response is dominant in the fluctuating wind-induced vibration response and cross-term components are not negligible for wind-induced vibration responses of super-large cooling towers.

Aerodynamic and aero-elastic performances of super-large cooling towers

Zhao, Lin,Chen, Xu,Ke, Shitang,Ge, Yaojun Techno-Press 2014 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.19 No.4

Hyperbolic thin-shell cooling towers have complicated vibration modes, and are very sensitive to the effects of group towers and wind-induced vibrations. Traditional aero-elastic models of cooling towers are usually designed based on the method of stiffness simulation by continuous medium thin shell materials. However, the method has some shortages in actual engineering applications, so the so-called "equivalent beam-net design method" of aero-elastic models of cooling towers is proposed in the paper and an aero-elastic model with a proportion of 1: 200 based on the method above with integrated pressure measurements and vibration measurements has been designed and carried out in TJ-3 wind tunnel of Tongji university. According to the wind tunnel test, this paper discusses the impacts of self-excited force effect on the surface wind pressure of a large-scale cooling tower and the results show that the impact of self-excited force on the distribution characteristics of average surface wind pressure is very small, but the impact on the form of distribution and numerical value of fluctuating wind pressure is relatively large. Combing with the Complete Quadratic Combination method (hereafter referred to as CQC method), the paper further studies the numerical sizes and distribution characteristics of background components, resonant components, cross-term components and total fluctuating wind-induced vibration responses of some typical nodes which indicate that the resonance response is dominant in the fluctuating wind-induced vibration response and cross-term components are not negligible for wind-induced vibration responses of super-large cooling towers.

Aero-elastic response of transmission line system subjected to downburst wind: Validation of numerical model using experimental data

Amal Elawady,Haitham Aboshosha,Ashraf El Damatty 한국풍공학회 2018 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.27 No.2

At the University of Western Ontario (UWO), numerical tools represented in semi-closed form solution for the conductors and finite element modeling of the lattice tower were developed and utilized significantly to assess the behavior of transmission lines under downburst wind fields. Although these tools were validated against other finite element analyses, it is essential to validate the findings of those tools using experimental data. This paper reports the first aeroelastic test for a multi-span transmission line under simulated downburst. The test has been conducted at the three-dimensional wind testing facility, the WindEEE dome, located at the UWO. The experiment considers various downburst locations with respect to the transmission line system. Responses obtained from the experiment are analyzed in the current study to identify the critical downburst locations causing maximum internal forces in the structure (i.e., potential failure modes), which are compared with the failure modes obtained from the numerical tools. In addition, a quantitative comparison between the measured critical responses obtained from the experiment with critical responses obtained from the numerical tools is also conducted. The study shows a very good agreement between the critical configurations of the downburst obtained from the experiment compared to those predicted previously by different numerical studies. In addition, the structural responses obtained from the experiment and those obtained from the numerical tools are in a good agreement where a maximum difference of 16% is found for the mean responses and 25% for the peak responses.

Aero-elastic wind tunnel test of a high lighting pole

Yaozhi Luo,Yucheng Wang,Jiming Xie,Chao Yang,Yanfeng Zheng 한국풍공학회 2017 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.25 No.1

This paper presents a 1:25 multi-freedom aero-elastic model for a high lighting pole at the Zhoushan stadium. To validate the similarity characteristics of the model, a free vibration test was performed before the formal test. Beat phenomenon was found and eliminated by synthesis of vibration in the X and Y directions, and the damping ratio of the model was identified by the free decay method. The dynamic characteristics of the model were examined and compared with the real structure; the similarity results were favorable. From the test results, the major along-wind dynamic response was the first vibration component. The along-wind wind vibration coefficient was calculated by the China code and Eurocode. When the peak factor equaled 3.5, the coefficient calculated by the China code was close to the experimental result while Eurocode had a slight overestimation of the coefficient. The wind vibration coefficient during typhoon flow was analyzed, and a magnification factor was suggested in typhoon-prone areas. By analyzing the power spectrum of the dynamic cross-wind base shear force, it was found that a second-order vortex-excited resonance existed. The cross-wind response in the test was smaller than Eurocode estimation. The aerodynamic damping ratio was calculated by random decrement technique and the results showed that aerodynamic damping ratios were mostly positive at the design wind speed, which means that the wind-induced galloping phenomenon is predicted not to occur at design wind speeds.

Aero-elastic wind tunnel test of a high lighting pole

Luo, Yaozhi,Wang, Yucheng,Xie, Jiming,Yang, Chao,Zheng, Yanfeng Techno-Press 2017 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.25 No.1

This paper presents a 1:25 multi-freedom aero-elastic model for a high lighting pole at the Zhoushan stadium. To validate the similarity characteristics of the model, a free vibration test was performed before the formal test. Beat phenomenon was found and eliminated by synthesis of vibration in the X and Y directions, and the damping ratio of the model was identified by the free decay method. The dynamic characteristics of the model were examined and compared with the real structure; the similarity results were favorable. From the test results, the major along-wind dynamic response was the first vibration component. The along-wind wind vibration coefficient was calculated by the China code and Eurocode. When the peak factor equaled 3.5, the coefficient calculated by the China code was close to the experimental result while Eurocode had a slight overestimation of the coefficient. The wind vibration coefficient during typhoon flow was analyzed, and a magnification factor was suggested in typhoon-prone areas. By analyzing the power spectrum of the dynamic cross-wind base shear force, it was found that a second-order vortex-excited resonance existed. The cross-wind response in the test was smaller than Eurocode estimation. The aerodynamic damping ratio was calculated by random decrement technique and the results showed that aerodynamic damping ratios were mostly positive at the design wind speed, which means that the wind-induced galloping phenomenon is predicted not to occur at design wind speeds.

Aero-elastic response of transmission line system subjected to downburst wind: Validation of numerical model using experimental data

Elawady, Amal,Aboshosha, Haitham,El Damatty, Ashraf Techno-Press 2018 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.27 No.2

At the University of Western Ontario (UWO), numerical tools represented in semi-closed form solution for the conductors and finite element modeling of the lattice tower were developed and utilized significantly to assess the behavior of transmission lines under downburst wind fields. Although these tools were validated against other finite element analyses, it is essential to validate the findings of those tools using experimental data. This paper reports the first aeroelastic test for a multi-span transmission line under simulated downburst. The test has been conducted at the three-dimensional wind testing facility, the WindEEE dome, located at the UWO. The experiment considers various downburst locations with respect to the transmission line system. Responses obtained from the experiment are analyzed in the current study to identify the critical downburst locations causing maximum internal forces in the structure (i.e., potential failure modes), which are compared with the failure modes obtained from the numerical tools. In addition, a quantitative comparison between the measured critical responses obtained from the experiment with critical responses obtained from the numerical tools is also conducted. The study shows a very good agreement between the critical configurations of the downburst obtained from the experiment compared to those predicted previously by different numerical studies. In addition, the structural responses obtained from the experiment and those obtained from the numerical tools are in a good agreement where a maximum difference of 16% is found for the mean responses and 25% for the peak responses.

대기경계층 공탄성 실험에서 역추정된 동적 풍방향 하중 특성

황재승 대한건축학회지회연합회 2018 대한건축학회연합논문집 Vol.20 No.1

The dynamic along-wind response based on spectral modal analysis has been adopted as a wind load standard in many countries over the world due to the advantage of evaluating the dynamic response by the simple theoretical formula since it has been established in the 1960s. In theoretical evaluation process, the modal wind load spectrum was derived from the spectral density of longitudinal velocity fluctuation, and the spectral modal analysis is performed for the wind-resistant performance. Since the modal wind load spectrum is derived by simplifying wind characteristics such as drag coefficient, turbulence intensity, co-coherence, etc. to facilitate the theoretical development, it is necessary to examine the validity of the simplification. In this study, the aero-elastic model test was performed in the atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel, and the modal response was separated from the acceleration responses measured from the model test by applying the state space mode decomposition technique. And then modal load was estimated in order to compare with the theoretical modal wind load. Especially, the characteristics of aerodynamic admittance used for the conversion from spectral density of wind velocity to modal wind load spectrum are mainly analyzed and compared with theoretical aerodynamic admittance. From the results, it is shown that the spectrum of estimated dynamic wind load is slightly different with the theoretical wind load spectrum according to the top wind velocity, but the overall spectral characteristics is similar in the frequency signature. Applying the process in this study to the measured response of a structure under natural wind, it can be used for estimating the wind load in the natural environment condition and establishing a wind load model based on in-situ data. 스펙트럼 모드해석에 기반한 풍방향 동적해석법은 1960년대에 정립된 이후, 이론적인 식에 의해서 응답을 평가할 수 있는 장점 때문에 세계 많은 나라에서 풍하중 기준으로 사용되고 있다. 이론식은 변동풍속 스펙트럼으로부터 모달풍하중 스펙트럼을 유도하고 스펙트럼해석에 의한 변동응답을 이용하여 구조물의 내풍성능을 평가할 수 있었다. 모달 풍하중 스펙트럼은 이론적 전개를 용이하게 하기 위하여 풍력계수, 난류강도, 코-코히어런스 등과 같은 바람의 성상을 단순화하여 유도된 것으로 그에 대한 타당성을 검토할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 대기 경계층 풍동에서 공탄성 실험을 수행하고 하중 추정법을 이용하여 풍방향 동적하중을 구하였으며, 이를 이론적인 모달 풍하중 스펙트럼과 비교하였다. 공탄성 실험으로부터 계측된 가속도 응답에 상태공간 모드분해법을 적용하여 모달응답을 구하고 그로부터 풍방향 모달하중을 역추정하고 이론적 모달풍하중과 비교하여 그 특성을 분석하였다. 특히 풍속스펙트럼으로부터 모달 풍하중스펙트럼으로의 변환과정에서 요구되는 공력어드미턴스의 특성을 이론적 어드미턴스와 비교분석하였다. 분석결과 추정된 풍방향 동적하중 스펙트럼은 최상층 풍속에 따라 이론적 풍하중 스펙트럼의 크기가 다소 다르게 반영되어 나타났으나 진동수 특성은 매우 유사한 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구기법과 과정을 자연풍을 받는 구조물의 실계측 응답에 적용하면 자연환경상태의 풍하중을 분석하고 그에 기반하여 풍하중 모델을 정립하는데 활용 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

Wind-induced Aerodynamic Instability of Super-tall Buildings with Various Cross-sectional Shapes

Kim, Wonsul,Yoshida, Akihito,Tamura, Yukio Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat Korea 2019 International journal of high-rise buildings Vol.8 No.4

The effectiveness of aerodynamic modification to reduce wind loadings has been widely reported. However, most of previous studies have been investigated dynamic forces and pressure distributions on tall buildings with various unconventional configurations. This study was investigated dynamic characteristics and aerodynamic instability of super-tall buildings with unconventional configurations through extensive aeroelastic model experiments. Seventeen types of supertall building models were considered such as basic and corner modification with corner cut, chamfered, oblique opening, tapered, inversely tapered, bulged, helical with twist angles of $90^{\circ}$, $180^{\circ}$, $270^{\circ}$, $360^{\circ}$ and composite with $360^{\circ}$ helical & corner cut, 4-tapered & $360^{\circ}$ helical & corner cut, setback & corner cut, setback & $45^{\circ}$ rotate. As a result, aerodynamic characteristics of helical models with single modification are superior to those of other models with single modification. However, effect of twist angle for helical model is negligible. Further, the 4-tapered & $360^{\circ}$helical & corner cut model is most effective in reducing the along- and across-wind fluctuating displacement responses in all of experimental models.

공력 축약 모델을 이용한 극초음속 비행체의 공력-열-탄성학적 연계 해석

양상혁(Sang Hyeok Yang),김규빈(Gyu Bin Kim),김정호(Jeong Ho Kim),조진연(Jin Yeon Cho),제상언(Sang Eon Je),김성진(Seong Jin Kim) 한국항공우주학회 2021 한국항공우주학회 학술발표회 논문집 Vol.2021 No.7

An analytical method of estimating wing and fuselage weights

Dayuan Ju,Dawoon Lee(이다운),Kwanjung Yee(이관중) 한국항공우주학회 2019 한국항공우주학회 학술발표회 논문집 Vol.2019 No.11