Mean wind pressures on flat roof corners affected by parapets: Field and wind tunnel studies

Engineering Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 629-638

  Stathopoulos, Theodore ^a   Marathe, Rajan ^a   Wu, Hanqing ^a,b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b ROWAN WILLIAMS DAVIES AND IRWIN INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Field measurement; Low building; Roof corner; Structural loads; Wind pressure; Wind tunnel test

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUILDINGS; DATA REDUCTION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

MEAN WIND PRESSURES; PARAPETS;

ROOFS;

PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; ROOF; WIND LOAD; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 0033169009     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00011-X     Document Type: Article

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