Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory Selected Data Sets for Comparison to Model-Scale, Full-Scale and Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations

This project provides a dataset, collected at full-scale in the field, of wind flow characteristics and associated wind-induced pressures on a 30 ft. x 45 ft. x 13 ft. high test structure. The dataset consists of both time histories and summary statistics for 15-minute duration records with flow direction impacting the 160 ft. high meteorological tower first and then impinging on the Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory test structure. Flow characteristics are measured at 8 ft., 13 ft., 33 ft., 70 ft. and 160 ft. on the meteorological tower and are classified as stationary in both wind speed and wind direction. Pressure coefficients are computed from wind-induced pressures measured at 204 locations on the building. There are 14 records for wind normal +\-10 to the short wall and 2 records for wind normal to the long wall +\-10. In addition, we provide the available drawings for the test structure along with a drawing and a table showing the location of the instrumented pressure taps installed on the test structure.