Wavelets-based estimation of multivariate evolutionary spectra and its application to nonstationary downburst winds

Engineering Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 976-989

  Huang, Guoqing ^a   Chen, Xinzhong ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Downburst; Evolutionary spectrum; Nonstationary stochastic process; Simulation; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BRIDGES; ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; MODULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

DOWNBURST; EVOLUTIONARY SPECTRUM; NONSTATIONARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS; SIMULATION; WAVELET TRANSFORM;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 60449113388     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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