This authoritative source for practising and academic sturctural engineers and graduate students ties the principles of wind loads on structures to meteorology, bluff-body aerodynamics, probability and statistics, and structural dynamics. It provides a broad view of codes and standards with information on global wind climates.
This authoritative source for practising and academic sturctural engineers and graduate students ties the principles of wind loads on structures to meteorology, bluff-body aerodynamics, probability and statistics, and structural dynamics. It provides a broad view of codes and standards with information on global wind climates.
Dr John Holmes has over forty years of experience in wind engineering and has authored over 500 journal and conference papers. Dr Seifu Bekele has twenty-five years of experience in wind engineering and related fields. His extensive consulting practice specialises in computational techniques.
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1 The nature of windstorms and wind-induced damage 2 Prediction of design wind speeds and structural safety 3 Strong wind characteristics and turbulence 4 Basic bluff-body aerodynamics 5 Resonant dynamic response and effective static load distributions 6 Internal pressures 7 Laboratory simulation of strong winds and wind loads 8 Low-rise buildings 9 Tall buildings 10 Large roofs and sports stadiums 11 Towers, chimneys and masts 12 Bridges 13 Transmission lines 14 Other structures 15 Wind-loading codes and standards 16 Application of computational fluid dynamics to wind loading