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Lifting wing in constructing tall buildings: aerodynamic testing

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posted on 2016-10-14, 08:50 authored by Ian R. Skelton, Peter DemianPeter Demian, Jacqueline Glass, Dino Bouchlaghem, Chimay J. Anumba
This paper builds on previous research by the authors which determined the global state-of-the-art of constructing tall buildings by surveying the most active specialist tall building professionals around the globe. That research identified the effect of wind on tower cranes as a highly ranked, common critical issue in tall building construction. The research reported here presents a design for a “Lifting Wing,” a uniquely designed shroud which potentially allows the lifting of building materials by a tower crane in higher and more unstable wind conditions, thereby reducing delay on the programmed critical path of a tall building. Wind tunnel tests were undertaken to compare the aerodynamic performance of a scale model of a typical “brick-shaped” construction load (replicating a load profile most commonly lifted via a tower crane) against the aerodynamic performance of the scale model of the Lifting Wing in a range of wind conditions. The data indicate that the Lifting Wing improves the aerodynamic performance by a factor of up to 50%.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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Buildings

Volume

4

Issue

2

Pages

245 - 265 (21)

Citation

SKELTON, I. ... et al., 2014. Lifting wing in constructing tall buildings: aerodynamic testing. Buildings, 4 (2), pp.245-265.

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MDPI (© the authors)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publication date

2014

ISSN

2075-5309

Language

  • en

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