Exact and general FT1 penultimate distributions of extreme wind speeds drawn from tail-equivalent Weibull parents

Structural Safety

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 391-420

  Cook, Nicholas J ^a   Harris, R Ian ^a  

^a Anemos Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic models; Exponential distribution; Extreme value statistics; Extreme wind speeds; Parent wind speeds; Penultimate distributions; Storm maxima; Weibull distribution; Wind engineering

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTIONS; WIND SPEEDS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EXTREME EVENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 3142766869     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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