Title: Across-Wind Loading on Reinforced Concrete Chimneys of Circular Cross-SectionB. J. Vickery*

Author(s): B. J. Vickery

Publication: Structural Journal

Volume: 91

Issue: 3

Appears on pages(s): 355-356

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DOI: 10.14359/9653

Date: 5/1/1994

Abstract:
Published in December 1993, this report from the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory of the University of Western Ontario presents a model for assessing across-wind loads on reinforced concrete chimneys. Because the report provides a basis for proposed changes in the ACI chimney design standard, this report condenses and summarizes some of the report findings. Across-wind loading and the induced dynamic response are due primarily to a more or less regular shedding of vortices from the chimney. This has long been recognized as a significant design consideration for slender structures with a bluff as opposed to streamlined cross section. Across-wind loading is also induced by lateral gustiness in natural wind and by lateral velocity fluctuations in the wake of an upstream structure such as another chimney in a grouped arrangement. The report deals primarily with loading due to vortex shedding, but makes some reference to buffeting in the wake of an upstream structure.