Low-rise building wind load provisions - Where are we and where do we need to go?

Engineering Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 135-150

  Chiu, Gregory L F ^a   Perry, Dale C ^b  

^a Insurance Inst for Property Loss   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WIND STRESS;

LOW-RISE BUILDINGS; WIND LOAD;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 0031553422     PISSN: 00138029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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