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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"wind design"”.
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Performance based wind design and optimization of tall buildings considering the nonlinearity in building response
… produced elegant solutions to the analysis and design of tall buildings such as Performance-Based Design (PBD). PBD has become a mainstream approach to assess and reduce the risks in rehabilitation of existing structures. Application of PBD philosophy for design of tall buildings and other …
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Wind shielding in refining and petrochemical facilities
… climatic load affecting the structural design of gulf coast refining and petrochemical facilities is wind. Despite this fact, little has been done to customize wind design for these unique facilities. This paper proposes a probabilistic model to predict the magnitude of shielding that is …
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Sensitivity of Steel Purlins to Changes in Application of Wind Loads
This project studied the effects of wind tunnel test loads applied to purlins in low rise steel buildings compared to those determined with currently recognized wind loading provisions. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) database of low-rise building wind tunnel test data, …
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Challenges in the design of tension moored floating wind turbines
In order to harness the extensive offshore wind resource, both in Ireland and in many parts of the world with deep offshore seas, the deployment of wind turbines on floating structures is required. Tension moored floating wind turbines are one type of platform with potential to be used for such …
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Multi-hazard design of mid- to high-rise structures
The importance of multi-hazard design of structures has emerged in the last decade, as extensive media coverage of natural disasters have increased public awareness of the catastrophic damage that hurricanes and earthquakes can wreak on buildings and infrastructure. Current design codes treat …
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Topology optimization of structures subjected to stochastic dynamic excitation
… is not feasible due to the extensive number of design variables. Consequently, new techniques are required to obtain the response due to stochastic excitation and perform the sensitivity analysis of these quantities efficiently for large systems. In this research, a direct approach to this …