{"title":"Blown away: Citicorp Center Tower repairs revisited.","authors":"Dat Duthinh","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using Database-Assisted Design and the Tokyo Polytechnic University Aerodynamic Database, we show that face winds put more structural demand than corner winds do on the Citicorp Tower in Manhattan. This 59-story building, supported by four midside columns, famously had to undergo secret emergency strengthening shortly after its completion in the 1970s to withstand corner winds.</p>","PeriodicalId":93233,"journal":{"name":"The engineers journal","volume":"NA ","pages":"online"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8240665/pdf/nihms-1658807.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The engineers journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Using Database-Assisted Design and the Tokyo Polytechnic University Aerodynamic Database, we show that face winds put more structural demand than corner winds do on the Citicorp Tower in Manhattan. This 59-story building, supported by four midside columns, famously had to undergo secret emergency strengthening shortly after its completion in the 1970s to withstand corner winds.