Wind tunnel and uniform pressure tests of a standing seam metal roof model

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 650-659

  Farquhar, Steven ^a   Kopp, Gregory A ^a   Surry, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buildings, low rise; Influence lines; Roofs; Wind loads; Wind tunnel test

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUILDINGS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TESTING; WIND; WIND TUNNELS;

BUILDINGS, LOW-RISE; INFLUENCE LINES; WIND LOADS; WIND TUNNEL TESTS;

ROOFS;

EID: 15944403621     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2005)131:4(650)     Document Type: Article

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