ESTIMATING DRIVING RAIN LOADS ON BUILDINGS: A 3D NUMERICAL AND AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH

摘要

This paper presents a short review and application results of a 3D numerical and an experimental approach for estimating driving rain loads. Both methods are applied to determine the temporal distribution of driving rain on the facade of a low-rise building. The comparison of the numerical results with the full-scale measurements reveals a good agreement. The importance of time representativeness of climatic input data for the numerical method is emphasized. For this purpose, a new weighted averaging technique for wind and rain data is presented.