A peak factor for predicting non-Gaussian peak resultant response of wind-excited tall buildings

7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, APCWE-VII

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Huang, M F ^a   Chan, C M ^b   Kwok, K C S ^c   Lou, Wenjuan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic serviceability; Level crossing rate (LCR); Mean extreme response; Peak factor method; Time variant reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION RESPONSE; ACCURATE PREDICTION; ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; CLOSED FORM; EXTREME RESPONSE; FIRST-PASSAGE; GAUSSIANS; LEVEL CROSSING RATES; NON-GAUSSIAN; PEAK FACTOR; PERFORMANCE DESIGN; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; RESPONSE PROCESS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; TIME HISTORY RESPONSE; TIME-VARIANT RELIABILITY; WIND EXCITATION; WIND-TUNNEL DATA;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FADING (RADIO); FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 84856901613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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