Analysis and simulation tools for wind engineering

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-31

  Gurley, Kurtis R ^a   Tognarelli, Michael A ^a   Kareem, Ahsan ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

CORRELATION DISTORTION METHODS; ENTROPY FUNCTIONAL SUBJECT; ENVIRONMENTAL LOADS; HERMITE TRANSFORMATION MODELS; KAC-SIEGERT APPROACH; VOLTERRA KERNELS; WIND ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

STRUCTURE; WIND EFFECT; WIND ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030635120     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0266-8920(96)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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