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Advanced Structural Wind Engineering

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Yukio Tamura

    1. TPU Wind Engineering Research Center, Atsugi, Japan

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  2. Ahsan Kareem

    1. NatHaz Modeling Laboratory, Notre Dame, USA

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  • Most advanced textbook on state-of-the-art structural wind engineering

  • World eminent professors collaborate to publish a textbook

  • Discusses wide range problems and provides their solutions in the field of structural wind engineering

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Strong Winds and Their Characteristics

    • Shuyang Cao
    Pages 1-25

  3. Estimation of the Design Wind Speed

    • Michael Kasperski
    Pages 27-58

  4. Bluff Body Aerodynamics

    • Richard G. J. Flay
    Pages 59-84

  5. Long-Span Bridge Aerodynamics

    • Yaojun Ge, Hiroshi Tanaka
    Pages 85-120

  6. Wind-Induced Vibrations of Structures: With Special Reference to Tall Building Aerodynamics

    • Kenny C. S. Kwok
    Pages 121-155

  7. The Gust Factor Approach to Evaluate the Along-Wind Response of Structures to Wind Excitation

    • Richard G. J. Flay
    Pages 157-176

  8. Wind Loads on Building Components and Cladding

    • Gregory A. Kopp
    Pages 177-195

  9. Windborne Debris in Horizontal Winds and Applications to Impact Testing

    • Chris Letchford, Ning Lin, John Holmes
    Pages 197-215

  10. Understanding Wind Codes and Standards: Fundamentals Behind Their Provisions

    • Theodore Stathopoulos
    Pages 217-259

  11. Numerical Simulation of Wind Effects

    • Ahsan Kareem, Megan C. McCullough
    Pages 261-299

  12. CFD Applications in Structural Wind Engineering

    • Shuyang Cao
    Pages 301-324

  13. Human Perception and Tolerance of Wind-Induced Building Motion

    • Kenny C. S. Kwok
    Pages 325-345

  14. Damping in Buildings and Estimation Techniques

    • Yukio Tamura
    Pages 347-376

  15. Control of the Wind Induced Response of Structures

    • Ahsan Kareem, Enrica Bernardini, Seymour M. J. Spence
    Pages 377-410
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This book serves as a textbook for advanced courses as it introduces state-of-the-art information and the latest research results on diverse problems in the structural wind engineering field. The topics include wind climates, design wind speed estimation, bluff body aerodynamics and applications, wind-induced building responses, wind, gust factor approach, wind loads on components and cladding, debris impacts, wind loading codes and standards, computational tools and computational fluid dynamics techniques, habitability to building vibrations, damping in buildings, and suppression of wind-induced vibrations. Graduate students and expert engineers will find the book especially interesting and relevant to their research and work.

Editors and Affiliations

  • TPU Wind Engineering Research Center, Atsugi, Japan

    Yukio Tamura

  • NatHaz Modeling Laboratory, Notre Dame, USA

    Ahsan Kareem

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