Wind pressures on parapets of flat roofs

Journal of Architectural Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 49-54

  Stathopoulos, Ted ^a   Saathoff, Patrick ^a   Bedair, R ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building codes; Parapets; Roofs; Wind pressure

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUILDING CODES; BUILDINGS; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; ROOFS;

CENTER FOR BUILDING STUDIES (CBS); PARAPET; WIND LOAD; WIND PRESSURE;

WIND;

EID: 0347407746     PISSN: 10760431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0431(2002)8:2(49)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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