Effects of increased wind loads on tall buildings

Civil Engineering Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 5-17

  Sanayei, Masoud ^a   Edgers, Lewis ^a   Alonge, Joseph ^b   Kirshen, Paul ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tufts University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS; FLEXURAL STIFFNESS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INFRASTRUCTURES; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CIVIL ENGINEERING; CLIMATOLOGY; CONCRETES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LOADS (FORCES); MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SAND; STEEL; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WIND;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 2442666455     PISSN: 08869685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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