Technical Papers

Reliability of Wind Tunnel Techniques

• • Australasian Wind Engineering Society, 2019 ed. A.W. Rofail et al, “Quality Assurance Manual: Wind Engineering Studies of Buildings”.
  • A.W. Rofail and K.C.S. Kwok, 1989, “A Statistical Analysis of Parameters Relating to the Sampling and Analysis of Wind Loads in Wind Tunnels”, Workshop on Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Melbourne, 5-7 December, pp.24-26.
  • A.W. Rofail and K.C.S. Kwok, 1990, “The Effect of Facade Features on Cladding Pressures”, Proceedings of the Second National Structural Engineering Conference, Adelaide, 3-5 October, pp.109-114.
  • A.W. Rofail and K.C.S. Kwok, 1991, “A Reliability Study of Wind Tunnel Results for Cladding Pressures”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Wind Engineering, 8-12 July. Later published in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.
  • A.W. Rofail, 1994, “Full-scale/ Model-scale Comparisons of Wind Pressures on the TTU Building”, 9th International Conference on Wind Engineering, New Delhi, India.
  • C. Mans, T. Rofail, “Effect of Balustrades on Building Cladding Pressures”, 10th Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop, Sydney, Australia, February 6-7, 2003.
  • A.W. Rofail, R. Tonin and D. Hanafi, 2004, “Sensitivity of frequency response to type of tubing”, Australasian Wind Engineering Workshop, Darwin, June 28-29, 2004.

Wind Loads on Façades and Façade Elements

• • L.J.Aurelius and A.W.Rofail, “Inter-Tenancy Wall Design for Tall Buildings with Operable Facades”, 12AWES Workshop, Queenstown, February 2006
  • A.W. Rofail and K.C.S. Kwok, 1990, “The Effect of Facade Features on the Wind Pressure Distribution on Buildings”, Proceedings of the Fourth World Congress of the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Hong Kong, 5-9 November, pp.735-750.
  • A.W. Rofail and K.C.S. Kwok, 1999, “The effect of sunshading elements on Cladding Pressures”, 10th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmmark.
  • C. Mans, G.A. Kopp, D. Surry, “Wind loads on parapets”, Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, Clemson, U.S.A. June 4 – 6, 2001.
  • C. Mans, G.A. Kopp, D. Surry, “The effect of roof pitch on low building structural loads” , Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, Clemson, U.S.A. June 4-6, 2001.
  • C. Mans, G.A. Kopp, D. Surry, “The prediction of wind loads on building attachments”, International Conference on Building Envelope Systems and Technologies (ICBEST), Ottawa, Canada. June 26-29, 2001.
  • C. Mans, G.A. Kopp, D. Surry, “Wind loads on parapets”, 10th Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop, Sydney, Australia, February 6-7, 2003.
  • C. Mans, T. Rofail, “Wind loads on balustrades”, 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A. June 2 – 5, 2003.
  • A.W. Rofail and C. Mans, 2004, “Wind Loads on Balustrades [on tall buildings]”, International Conference on Building Envelope Systems and Technologies”, Sydney, 29th March to 2nd April.
  • C. Mans, G.A. Kopp, D. Surry, “Wind loads on low buildings with various parapet configurations”, 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A. June 2 – 5, 2003.
  • S.T. Smith and A.W. Rofail, 1994, “A Comparison Between Wind Tunnel Cladding Pressures and Code Estimates”, Proceedings of the Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, September 21-23.
  • T.C.E. Ho, C. Mans, D. Surry, G.A. Kopp, “The NIST aerodynamic database for wind loads on low buildings: Part 2. local loads”, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics (Under review).

Wind Tunnel Modelling Techniques

• • J.D. Holmes, A.W.Rofail and L.J.Aurelius, 2003, “High frequency base balance methodologies for tall buildings with torsional and coupled resonant modes”, 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Lubbock, Texas, June 2003
  • • J.D. Holmes, A.W.Rofail and L.J.Aurelius, 2003, “The Effect of Coupling between Translational and Torsional modes, A Case Study”, 10th AWES Workshop, Sydney, February 2003
  • L. J. Aurelius and A.W. Rofail, 2001, “Performance of Windtech’s slatted roof blockage tolerant boundary layer wind tunnel in 3D flow”, 9th AWES Workshop, Townsville, 12-13 July, 2001
  • A.W. Rofail and L.J.Aurelius, 2004, “A Wind Tunnel Modelling Methodology for the determination of the Internal and Net Design Pressures for Tall Buildings having operable facades”, International Conference on Building Envelope Systems and Technologies, Sydney, 29th March to 2nd April.

Natural Ventilation

• • A.W. Rofail and S. Fernando, 2000, “Case Study: Assessment and Optimisation of natural ventilation for the University of NSW main service tunnel”, 8th AWES Worksop, Perth, 10-11 February, 2000.
  • A.W. Rofail and L.J.Aurelius, 2004, “Performance of an auxiliary natural ventilation system”, Australasian Wind Engineering Workshop, Darwin, June 28-29, 2004.
  • K. Peddie and A.W. Rofail, 2010, “Application of Natural Ventilation for Commercial Developments”, 14th Australasian Wind Engineering Workshop, Canberra, August 5-6, 2010.
  • K. Peddie and A. Rofail, 2011, “Designing for Natural Ventilation in Tall Residential Buildings”, CTBUH International Congress, Seoul.
  • A. Rofail et al, 2011, “Designing Integrated Natural and Forced Ventilation Car Parks using wind tunnel and Numerical Modelling”, 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Amsterdam.

• • K. Peddie and A. Rofail, 2014, Innovative Designs for Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Buildings, CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference, 16-19 September, 2014, Shanghai.

• • K. Peddie and A Rofail, 2013, Natural Ventilation in Hot Arid Environments, 16th Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop, 18-19 July, 2013, Brisbane.

Wind Noise

• • A.W. Rofail and R. Tonin, 2000, “An Exploration of Wind-Noise in Buildings”, 8th AWES Workshop, Perth, 10-11 February, 2000.

Thunderstorm Downbursts

• • C.W. Letchford, C. Mans,”Translation effects in modelling thunderstorm downbursts”, 4th International Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and Applications, Bochum, Germany. Sept. 11-14, 2000.
  • (Invited Lecture) C.W. Letchford, C. Mans, T. Chay, “Thunderstorms – their importance in Wind Engineering (A case for the next generation wind tunnel)”, The Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, Kyoto, Japan. October 21-24, 2001.
  • C.W. Letchford, C. Mans, T. Chay, “Thunderstorms – their importance in Wind Engineering (A case for the next generation wind tunnel)”, Journal of Wind Engineering, Vol. 89, 2001. pp. 31-44.

Solar Reflectivity

• • A.W. Rofail and B. Dowdle, 2004, “Reflectivity Impact on occupants of neighbouring properties”, International Conference on Building Envelope Systems and Technologies”, Sydney, 29th March to 2nd April.

Wind-Structure Interaction

• • L.J.Aurelius and A.W.Rofail, “Discussion Paper: Structural Damping”, 12AWES Workshop, Queenstown, February 2006
  • A. Rofail, 2008, “Designing Integrated Natural and Forced Ventilation Car Parks using wind tunnel and Numerical Modelling”, Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, Melbourne.
  • A. Rofail, et al, 2012, “Tuned Liquid Dampers for the Economic Design of a Tall Building” CTBUH International Congress, Shanghai.

• • A. Rofail and N, Truong, 2012, Estimation of Torsional Loads on Tall Buildings, 15th Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop, 23-24 February, 2012, Sydney.
  • A. Rofail, 2018, “Review of AS/NZS1170.2 Section 6.3.2”, AWES Research Report, December 7, 2018

Wind Environment Criteria

• • A. Rofail, 2007, “Comparison of wind environment criteria against field observations”, 12th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Cairns

Wind Climate Analysis

• • N. Truong and A. Rofail, 2013, Assessing the Reliability of Directional Multipliers from a Single Station, 16th Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop, 18-19 July, 2013, Brisbane.