A light sculpture element under wind load – numerical FSI analysis and an experiment in a wind tunnel

Abstract

The article introduces a numerical and experimental work to analyse the behaviour of a specific light sculpture element in a wind-load. It starts with a static analysis, which moves to a simplified unsteady analysis followed by a real experiment in a wind channel. The numerical part was not able to provide all necessary information about the light sculpture element behaviour. The experimental part was done to determine the real behaviour of the sculpture element under specified wind conditions.