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"The typical process by which engineered buildings are designed for wind loads in current practice has serious shortcomings. This is due to the inadequate pressure measurement technology and computational resources at the time of its development, and to an ineffective framework for the cooperation between wind and structural engineers. As a result, independent estimates of wind forces on major tall buildings performed in the early 2000s by prominent wind engineering laboratories were found to differ from each other by over 40 %. This finding, and similar findings reported in the literature, prompted intense research efforts that, along with the development of the pressure scanner, led to major advances in the state of the art. However, these advances have not yet been integrated effectively into design practice"--
Coherence 438 B.6 Mean Upcrossing and Outcrossing Rate for a Gaussian Process 439 B.7 Probability Distribution of the Peak Value of a Random Signal with Gaussian Marginal Distribution 441; ; Appendix C Peaks-Over-Threshold Poisson-Process Procedure for Estimating Peaks 443 C.1 Introduction 443 C.2 Peak Estimation by Peaks-Over-Threshold Poisson-Process Procedure 444 C.3 Dependence of Peak Estimates by BLUE Upon Number of Partitions 451 C.4 Summary 451 Appendix D Structural Dynamics 455 D.1 Introduction 455 D.2 The Single-Degree-of-Freedom Linear System 455 D.3 Continuously Distributed Linear Systems 458 D.4 Example: Along-Wind Response 463 Appendix E Structural Reliability 467 E.1 Introduction 467 E.2 The Basic Problem of Structural Safety 468 E.3 First-Order Second-Moment Approach: Load and Resistance Factors 469 E.4 Structural Strength Reserve
Emil Simiu, P.E., Ph.D., NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, DongHun Yeo, P.E., Ph.D., Research Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.