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As expected, the flat plate was the first to fall. However the
cylinder was the one who fell with the least wind load of the
The wind-induced response of tall buildings is usually remaining shapes. The next would be the rectangular prism
dominated by dynamic acrosswind loading resulting from and the most stable cross section is found to be the
wind vortex shedding as shown in Fig. 1b. When wind blows triangular prism.
over a bluff structure, flow separates and causes periodic
shedding of vortices. This periodic vortex shedding exerts The obtained result is contrasting to the theory presented as
acrosswind forces on the body by creating fluctuating the cylindrical block is expected to be the most aerodynamic
pressures. Strouhal number is a non-dimensional parameter and thus, most resistive of the three in terms of wind load.
that defines the dominant frequency of the fluctuations in the
acrosswind forces and is expressed as (Eq. (1)): This experiment may be further explored through the use of
other materials that might be more representative of actual
buildings.