Eaton K.J. Mayne J.R.
Year:
1974
Bibliographic info:
Building Research Establishment current paper 70/74.

Reports project to measure wind pressures on low-rise buildings. Describes site and houses in the estate selected for investigation. Gives details of an associated experimental building. Outlines positioning of the pressure transducers andgives details of the cabling and the reference pressure system. describes velocity measurement, recording equipment and methods of calibration, processing and analysis. Gives details of records taken in tabular form. discusses preliminary results including comments on velocity measurements, mean and extreme pressure values, pressure coefficients on both walls and roof of experimental building as well as on the estate houses and spectra of both velocity and pressure measurements. NOTES See also abstract no. 307 for comparison with wind tunnel tests and abstract no 132 for a final version of this report.