Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Buffeting Wind Load on Antennas with Rooftop Site

Abstract

Mathias Clobes

Most of the mobile phone antennas are located in urban areas. An economical solution is to place the antennas on top of existing buildings. In practice, any effect that the building has on the antenna wind load is neglected. Wind tunnel investigations and numerical simulations show that the wind loading might increase in some cases by up to 30% compared with the free flow.