Proposed new Canadian wind provisions for the design of gable roofs

Canadian journal of civil engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1059-1072

  Stathopoulos, Ted ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Wu, Hanqing ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b ROWAN WILLIAMS DAVIES AND IRWIN INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUILDING CODES; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

GABLE ROOFS; WIND PRESSURE;

ROOFS;

EID: 0034291550     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjce-27-5-1059     Document Type: Article

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