Abstract
Recently, frequent torrential floods cause tremendous casualties and economic losses to the national people in China. In this paper, six 1:6 scale rural building models made of PMMA are tested to research the flow pressure of flood, which will provide the basic data for the flood-resistant design of rural buildings. The experiment of flood on buildings is carried on the large wave-current tank. The height of water is 0.6, 0.9 and 1.2 meters and the distances between the building and floodgate are 3, 6 and 9 meters respectively. The flow pressure is obtained by the sensor transducer. Based on the experimental results, the distribution of the flow pressure and some effect factors are investigated. Results show that the variation of flow pressure distributions decreases gradually with the vertical distance from bottom to top in the vertical direction. The flow pressure in the horizontal direction is different because of the boundary and holes effect.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
