This major qualifying project investigates wind loading and structural design of a triangular-shaped 5-story building in San Francisco. Finite Element Method (FEM) software, ANSYS 19.1 is adopted to create a virtual wind tunnel test in accordance with ASCE 7-16 and ASCE 49-12. This project focuses on simulating two types of wind-tunnel test, Rigid Pressure Model Technique and High-Frequency Base-Balance (Time-Domain Analysis) Technique. Of those two techniques, the final structural design in based on the Rigid Pressure Model Technique.

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Creator

• Htet, Khant Win

Contributors

• Palczynski, Jonathan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030119-120424

Advisor

• Albano, Leonard D.

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-03-01

Location

• San Francisco

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Civil Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright