Experimental Study on an Aeroelastic Model of a Television Tower in the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a detailed experimental procedure for investigating the dynamic behavior of an aeroelastic model of a television tower to the wind action in the boundary layer wind tunnel. The main objective of the procedure is to provide a framework for the calculation of the dynamic response based on the wind tunnel results. Wind tunnel tests were carried out on an already existing 1:500 scale aeroelastic model of the television tower, which is in the Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering Laboratory “Constantin Iamandi” from the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest. For this study were taken into account the specific characteristics of the Bucharest site were. The investigation highlights the ability of the procedure to obtain an overview of the oscillating behavior of the television tower model to the turbulent wind action.