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Abstract: Theoretical analysis and wind tunnel tests were carried out to study wind-induced internal pressure response for the structure with single windward opening and background leakage. Its governing differential equation was derived by the Bernoulli equation in an unsteady-isentropic form. Numerical examples were provided to study the additive damping caused by background leakage in laminar and turbulent flow, and the influence of background leakage on fluctuating internal pressure response was quantized. A series of models for low-rise building with various opening ratios and background leakage were designed and wind tunnel tests were conducted. It is shown that the fluctuating internal pressure reduces when the background leakage are considered and that the effect of background leakage can be predicted accurately by the governing differential equation deduced in this paper.

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