| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 412 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Advances in wind engineering ; pt. 1 |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Advances in Wind Engineering, Part I; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR WIND ENGINEERING; THE CONFERENCE; PROGRAM SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SESSION 1: Wind Characteristics and Description Introductory Remarks; CHAPTER 1. REVIEW OF PAPERS FOR SESSION 1 : WIND CHARACTERISTICS AND DESCRIPTION; LONG-PERIOD WIND STATISTICS; STRUCTURE OF WINDS OVER SIMPLE TERRAIN; EFFECTS OF SPECIAL TERRAIN FEATURES; WIND CHARACTERISTICS IN SPECIAL METEOROLOGICAL SITUATIONS LEADING TO VIOLENT WINDS; EFFECTS OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES ON LOCAL WIND CHARACTERISTICS |
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Acknowledgementreferences; chapter 5. the structure of turbulence during strong winds; abstract; introduction; autocorrelation; vertical crosscorrelation; horizontal crosscorrelation; power sepectrum; spectrum of coherence; conclusion; referencies; chapter 6. turbulent properties and spectral behaviours of ocean winds observed at an off-shore tower; abstract; notation; 1. introduction; 2. instrumentation; 3. results and discussions; 4. conclusions; references; chapter 7. extreme wind speed distributions for tropical cyclones; abstract; introduction; physical model |
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Climatology of tropical cyclonesconclusion; references; chapter 8. extreme winds generated from short records in a tropical cyclone-prone region; abstract; introduction; proposed model; markov property and stationary tests; application; conclusion; acknowledgment; references; chapter 9. observed effects of topography on the wind field of cyclone winifred; abstract; introduction; wind speeds approaching the coast; observed topographic influences; remarks; acknowledgements; references; chapter 10. discussion on session 1 -- wind characteristics and description |
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DISCUSSION ON PAPER BY A. FLAGA AND B. WRANADISCUSSION ON PAPER BY Y. TAMURA AND K. SUDA; DISCUSSION ON PAPER BY 6. TETZLAFF AND A.M. HOFF; DISCUSSION ON PAPER BY H.W. TIELEMAN; DISCUSSION ON PAPER BY R.E. WHITBREAD; DISCUSSION ON PAPER BY G. NAITO; DISCUSSION ON PAPER BY D. DELAUNAY; DISCUSSION ON PAPER OF G.R. WALKER, G.F. REARDON AND E.D. JANCAUSKAS; DISCUSSION ON PAPER BY R.G.J. FLAY AND D.C. STEVENSON; SESSION 2: WIND ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER 11. WIND ENVIRONMENT: Theme Introduction and Report on Preprint Papers Not Included in Proceedings |
| Summary |
Held under the auspices of the International Association for Wind Engineering, 226 delegates from twenty-three countries took part in the conference. This three volume work contains about 90 papers published in full length, together with summaries and discussions on other interesting and valuable papers presented at the conference |
| Notes |
"This material has also been published as a special issue of the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, vols. 28-30." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Wind-pressure -- Congresses
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Winds -- Congresses
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Wind-pressure
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Winds
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kramer, C
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Gerhardt, H. J
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| ISBN |
9780444599766 |
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0444599762 |
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