Wind loading codification in the Americas: Fundamentals for a renewal

11th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Simiu, Emil ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES AND STANDARDS; LABORATORY TESTING; LOSS ESTIMATION; LOW-RISE BUILDINGS; MULTIHAZARD DESIGNS; PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT; STRUCTURAL ENGINEER; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; WIND CLIMATOLOGY; WIND ENGINEERING; WIND LOADING; WIND TUNNEL TESTS;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TALL BUILDINGS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84862099808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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