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Wind forces on buildings are usually dealt with considering the building in isolation. Controversely, about 80% of buildings are situated in an urban environment and hence surrounded by other buildings: the flow fields interfere with each other altering the wind loads — both static and dynamic — in comparison to the isolated case. The effects of interference in a given situation depend very much on the position of the building group relative to the wind direction, leading either to shelter or to amplification effects. The dependence of extreme wind speeds on the wind direction becomes therefore important. The paper reviews the interference for some typical cases and discusses the directional influence in strong winds.
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Niemann, HJ. (1995). Wind-Induced Response of Buildings Arranged in a Group. In: Cermak, J.E., Davenport, A.G., Plate, E.J., Viegas, D.X. (eds) Wind Climate in Cities. NATO ASI Series, vol 277. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3686-2_13
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