Design guidelines for community shelters for extreme wind events

Journal of Architectural Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 69-77

  Coulbourne, William L ^a   Tezak, E Scott ^a   McAllister, Therese P ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Greenhorne and O'Mara Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Design criteria; Hurricanes; Protective structures; Tornadoes; Wind

Indexed keywords

PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES; RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES; WINDSTORMS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; HURRICANES; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TORNADOES;

WIND;

EID: 13944272809     PISSN: 10760431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0431(2002)8:2(69)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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