ملخص
Abstract
The new trend of development in Libya is building a more high rise buildings (tall buildings) in dense populated cities like Tripoli to limit the horizontal expansion of the cities.Therefore, an accurate estimation of wind load is an important factor for the design of such tall buildings.This research examines the effects of wind on the design of buildings, and explaining wind types dominating territory. The thesis main focus is analysing the wind data collected from 22 meteorological stations distributed around the country.The wind data analysis is carried out by using a probability distribution model that created an estimation of the design wind speed with a return period of 50 – year for each city’s station.The established wind speed is then used to create a design wind speed contour map for the entire country using special software.