Exposure model for wind loading of buildings

EACWE 2005 - 4th European and African Conference on Wind Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 334-335

  Wang, K ^a   Stathopoulos, T ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE MODELS; FULL-SCALE RESULTS; ROUGHNESS CHANGE; TERRAIN ROUGHNESS; UPSTREAM TERRAIN; WIND SPEED MODELS; WIND SPEED PROFILES; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

LANDFORMS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84875123270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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