THE SILSOE BUILDING - A COMPARISON OF PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS AND SPECTRA AT MODEL AND FULL-SCALE

A comparison of pressure coefficients and spectra for the curved eaves Silsoe Building at model and full scale is made following a comparison of the full-scale and 1:100 scale wind tunnel profile. The comparison is restricted to a wind direction normal to the building ridge and to a mid-building-length set of taps. The use of a floor-mounted static reference pressure resulted in better comparisons between full and model scales both of coefficients and particularly of frequency domain data. The frequency domain data on the windward wall mid-height tap show good agreement for full-scale frequencies from 0.001 to 1.0 Hz as does the freestream wind dynamic reference pressure.