Interference Effects of Adjacent High-Rise Building on Wind-Induced Response of Low-Rise Flat Roof Building.

Interference influence of the spacing and height ratio on the modal generalized force and wind-induced response of the low-rise building roof due to one adjacent high-rise building is investigated at three typical wind directions of 0∘, 90∘ and 180∘, where the low-rise building was, respectively, located at the upstream, side-by-side and downstream of the high-rise building. The mean and standard deviation of the modal generalized force of the first vibration mode mainly exhibits reduction effects and amplification effects, respectively, at the wind direction of 0∘ and 90∘ at small building spacing, and first experiences shielding effects and then becomes amplification effects when the height ratio increases at the wind direction of 180∘. The maximum displacement mainly presents reduction effects at the wind direction of 0∘, the interference factor decreases with the increase of the reduced frequency in engineering range, and the minimum interference factor is close to 0.2. At the wind direction of 90∘, the maximum displacement mainly presents amplification effects, these effects are obvious when the spacing ratio is small and the height ratio is large, and the maximum interference factor is close to 2.2 when the reduced frequency is larger than 0.3. At the wind direction of 180∘, the maximum displacement shows significant amplification effects when the building spacing is small and the height ratio is large, the amplification effects gradually weaken and change into shielding effects as the building spacing increases or the height ratio decreases, and the minimum interference factor is close to 0.3. The minimum displacement experiences amplification effects at all three typical wind directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]