Database-assisted design for wind: basic concepts and software development

Standard provisions for wind loads on buildings have traditionally been based on summary tables and/or plots suitable for slide-rule calculations. The accuracy in the definition of wind loads inherent in such tables and plots is far lower than that inherent in current methods for stress computation....

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Published in:Journal of wind engineering and industrial aerodynamics 2002-11, Vol.90 (11), p.1349-1368
Main Authors: Whalen, Timothy M, Sadek, Fahim, Simiu, Emil
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