This paper investigates the effects of wind velocity fluctuations on wind-induced response of two-dimensional rectangular sections with fairings. Aspect ratios of employed models is 1:2 (A0) and 1:4 (B0), and two types of fairing are considered such a...
This paper investigates the effects of wind velocity fluctuations on wind-induced response of two-dimensional rectangular sections with fairings. Aspect ratios of employed models is 1:2 (A0) and 1:4 (B0), and two types of fairing are considered such as regular and right-angled triangular sections. In turbulence simulation using grids, turbulent flows with various turbulence intensities are successfully produced where grid size, arrangement of grids and installing location are respectively changed. As the results of response tests, the vortex induced amplitude of basic sections A0 and B0 is decreased with the increment of turbulence intensity, in which section B0 is more strongly affected than section A0. The regular triangular fairing tends to increase the maximum amplitude of vortex-induced oscillation while right triangular fairing suppresses vortex induced response. As the turbulence effects for the sections with regular triangular fairing(AF, BF), the vortex induced amplitude is increased by existence of wind velocity fluctuations in the cases of vertical mode of section AF and torsional mode of BF.