Exposure model for wind loading of buildings

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 95, Issue 9-11, 2007, Pages 1511-1525

  Wang, K ^a   Stathopoulos, T ^b  

^a ROWAN WILLIAMS DAVIES AND IRWIN INC   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exposure; Roughness change; Small scale; Speed profile; Terrain

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

TERRAIN-RELATED CODE SPECIFICATIONS; WIND MEAN SPEED PROFILE;

WIND EFFECTS;

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 34548190320     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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