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PUBLICATIONS

Blown away: Citicorp Center Tower repairs revisited

Published

Author(s)

Dat Duthinh

Abstract

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.
Citation
Engineers Journal
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

across-wind excitation, along-wind excitation, aerodynamic database, Citicorp Tower, corner wind, Database-Assisted Design, engineering ethics, face wind, overturning moment, vortex-shedding.
Buildings and Construction

Citation

Duthinh, D. (2019), Blown away: Citicorp Center Tower repairs revisited, Engineers Journal (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created June 30, 2019, Updated August 17, 2020
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