Advanced Structural Wind Engineering

1. Strong Winds and Their Characteristics
Shuyang Cao

2. Estimation of the Design Wind Speed
Michael Kasperski

3. Bluff Body Aerodynamics
Richard G. J. Flay

4. Long-Span Bridge Aerodynamics
Yaojun Ge, Hiroshi Tanaka

5. Wind-Induced Vibrations of Structures: With Special Reference to Tall Building Aerodynamics
Kenny C. S. Kwok

6. The Gust Factor Approach to Evaluate the Along-Wind Response of Structures to Wind Excitation
Richard G. J. Flay

7. Wind Loads on Building Components and Cladding
Gregory A. Kopp

8. Windborne Debris in Horizontal Winds and Applications to Impact Testing
Chris Letchford, Ning Lin, John Holmes

9. Understanding Wind Codes and Standards: Fundamentals Behind Their Provisions
Theodore Stathopoulos

10. Numerical Simulation of Wind Effects
Ahsan Kareem, Megan C. McCullough

11. CFD Applications in Structural Wind Engineering
Shuyang Cao

12. Human Perception and Tolerance of Wind-Induced Building Motion
Kenny C. S. Kwok

13. Damping in Buildings and Estimation Techniques
Yukio Tamura

14. Control of the Wind Induced Response of Structures
Ahsan Kareem, Enrica Bernardini, Seymour M. J. Spence

Keywords: Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Architecture, general, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering