FIELD EXPERIMENTS FOR BUILDING AERODYNAMICS

A field research facility has been constructed at Texas Tech Universit y to study bluff body aerodynamics for a low-rise building. This facil ity features new capabilities not found in past field experiments. A v ariety of research is being pursued at the facility including wind loa ds on building surfaces, internal pressures, performance of roofing ma terials, and wind flow around the building. This paper contains a desc ription of the field facility, and provides an introduction to some of the current experiments. The results of an internal pressure study ar e also presented.