Wall of wind full-scale destructive testing of coastal houses and hurricane damage mitigation

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1211-1217

  Leatherman, Stephen P ^a   Chowdhury, Arindam Gan ^a   Robertson, Carolyn J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal construction; Full scale wind testing; Hurricane damage; Mitigation techniques; Wall of wind experimentation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING CODE; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL STRUCTURE; COASTAL ZONE; DAMAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE; TESTING METHOD; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 35348909123     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/07-0829.1     Document Type: Article

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