To facilitate research, practice, and education in the area of wind-resistant structural design, the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BRFL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has assembled this public repository of aerodynamic data from boundary layer wind tunnel tests on scale building models. The initial posting of this database contains 95 data sets contributed by The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory at The University of Western Ontario (UWO) for gable-roofed building models with various dimensions and terrain conditions. Data sets obtained at various laboratories are expected to be added to the NIST database in the future.
Click on the icon(s) below to access data sets and supporting documentation from the respective laboratories:
The assembly and dissemination of this database represents an important step in facilitating Database-Assisted Design of buildings for wind. Database-Assisted Design makes direct use of pressure coefficients measured in the wind tunnel, rather than using simplified "pseudo pressure coefficients," as in existing standards such as ASCE 7. Further information and software tools related to Database-Assisted Design can be found at the following links:
Joseph A. Main and William P. Fritz (2006). Database-Assisted Design for Wind: Concepts, Software, and Examples for Rigid and Flexible Buildings, NIST Building Science Series 180, March 2006.
Additional data sets, software, and publications related to Extreme Winds and Wind Effects on Structures can also be found at www.nist.gov/wind.