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    Monumental Windsculpture Engineering Question

    Thank you all for taking your time and for your good input. I will build some models to test the concept... What kind of engineer or who should I specifically turn to in re. to wind sensitivity of large shapes and how to optimize them? Cheerio for now - Ralfonso
  2. Ralfonso

    Monumental Windsculpture Engineering Question

    Thank you for your time and interest! I encl. a rendering that will hopefully help with 1. Any advice for 2. and 3. would be most welcome :) Cheerio, Ralfonsohttp://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=5607b5a4-4f57-48ee-a88a-953d63198783&file=ENG-Question_1.JPG
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    Monumental Windsculpture Engineering Question

    Good morning, I am a designer of large to monumental kinetic, mostly wind-driven, public sculptures. My newest design calls for square discs to rotate in the wind - see encl. My 3 questions are: 1. What is the best shape of the horizontal cutout of the sides of each square disc, to give max...

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