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Working with a office tower 15 storey triangular in shape. Do not know how to establish wind loading on it. Can any1 advise?
I have same problem like this last year, I think any software cannot calculate it, must to test on wind tunnel test for correctly wind impact on building..

Regards,
robertsasmita
robertsas,

so u did tunnel test for the project? how is the procedure going?
Dear All:
I do experience with one irregular shape building before. The shape of the building is something like Burj Dubai (three wings). What i did is by assinging the axis of wind at every 10 degree interval. Eventually, i have 36 wind direction.
Then, design all the vertical element for the worst case.
Pls correct me if i am wrong.
klsamy77,

u use directional method of bs6399?
Yes, i am using directional method.
Go to following link to get the Wind Tunnel Report that i uploaded. So, u can have some idea what is it all about.
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