Wind tunnel measurements of crosswind loads on high sided vehicles over long span bridges

Effects of wind barrier on the safety of vehicles driven on bridges

“…In the wind tunnel test, the Reynolds numbers of the scaled road vehicle are 1.15 Â 10 5 and 1.29 Â 10 5 for the commercial van and articulated lorry, respectively. Although Reynolds number has certain influence on the aerodynamic coefficients of vehicles, especially at large yaw angles, the wind tunnel test is inevitably constrained by the experimental conditions (Dorigatti et al, 2012). In the previous wind tunnel tests, Reynolds numbers (Baker, 1991;Zhu et al, 2012) with lower values of 0.88 Â 10 5 and 0.45 Â 10 5 were adopted.…”

Full scale experiments on vehicle induced transient loads on roadside plates

“…Further, crosswind and gust induced effects on vehicles and roadside structures were treated in several studies in model as well as in full scale experiments, see e.g. Dorigatti et al (2012) and Pulipaka et al (1998). A field experiment and numerical study on vehicle-induced aerodynamic loads on highway sound barriers were done by Wang et al (2013aWang et al ( , 2013b where three vehicle types were considered passing along a barrier.…”

A coupled wind-vehicle-bridge system and its applications: a review

“…4, called the cross-slot system, to measure the aerodynamic characteristics of the rail vehicle-bridge system, taking the aerodynamic interaction between the rail vehicle and bridge into account. Dorigatti et al (2012) measured the aerodynamic loads for three kinds of road vehicles on a typical bridge deck as well as an idealized bridge deck in wind tunnel tests in order to improve the performance of a long-span bridge in strong wind. Zhu et al (2012) examined the aerodynamic coefficients of road vehicles on a bridge deck.…”