Comparative Study Between Poland and South Africa Wind Climates, the Related Damage and Implications of Adopting the Eurocode for Wind Action on Buildings

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A. Goliger PhD.Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South AfricaEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar¹  Prof. M. Gi?ejowski PhD. DSc.EmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar²  M. ?wik MSc.PhD Student, Warsaw University of Technology, PolandEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar³  M. Gaczek PhD.Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, PolandEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar⁴  S. Fiszer MSc.Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, PolandEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar⁴  J. Retief PhD.Professor at Stellenbosch University, South AfricaEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar⁵  J. ?uranski PhD. DSc.Professor at the Building Research Institute, Warsaw, PolandEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar⁶  A. Kruger PhDSouth African Weather Service, Pretoria, South AfricaEmailOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar⁷  P. Dunaiskideceased, formerly Professor at Stellenbosch University, South AfricaOther articles by this author:De Gruyter OnlineGoogle Scholar⁸ 

[1] Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa;Email;PhD Student, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland;Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland;Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa;Professor at the Building Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland;South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa;deceased, formerly Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

关键词: Keywords: wind climate;    wind damage;    wind loading;    structural design standards;   

DOI  :  10.2478/ace-2013-0003

学科分类：建筑学

来源: Polska Akademia Nauk * Instytut Podstawowych Problemow Techniki / Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

【 摘 要 】

Wind constitutes one of the major environmental factors affecting the design and performance of built environment. Each country has its unique climatic wind conditions, and the way in which these are considered and implemented in the structural design, is important. An implementation or adoption of any new engineering design stipulations introduces a formidable challenge to the developers of the standards and the design profession. This has been experienced in some of the countries (e.g. the UK, Australia and the USA), where processes of modernising the outdated codification took place in the past. Although both Poland and South Africa are currently at the early implementation stage of the new wind loading design stipulations, there is a major difference between the circumstances of the two countries. Poland, as an EU member state, has a compulsory obligation to adopt the new uniform standarisation requirements, within a stipulated time-frame. The South African code developers, after a thorough investigation process which will be highlighted in the paper, decided voluntarily to adopt the Eurocode as the primary model document

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