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Sponsored by the Technical Council on Wind Engineering of ASCE. Wind Issues in the Design of Buildings explains the ways that structural designers accommodate the impact of extreme wind events on the built environment. By studying the flow and pressure fields around buildings, architects and engineers can identify and select the best strategies for ensuring that a building will resist the loads due to high winds, maintaining pleasant conditions in outdoor spaces, assessing natural ventilation potential, and seeing that any exhaust fumes are dispersed adequately. This volume identifies wind characteristics and describes the effects of winds generated by hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms. It explains the internal and external pressures on a building's cladding (skin) and the effects of wind-borne debris. A building's response to the structural loads caused by wind is outlined, along with techniques for resisting wind. A chapter is devoted to wind tunnels and physical modeling to predict structural loads, cladding response, pedestrian experience, topographic effects, and snow deposition. A section of frequently asked questions, a glossary, and recommended reading make this material in this volume accessible to students and nontechnical members of project teams. Structural engineers and architects will find this book a useful aide in explaining wind-related issues to clients, builders, building officials, and owners. Students in structural and architectural engineering will welcome the clear, concise presentation of an important component of structural design.

Buildings --- Wind resistant design. --- Building design --- Wind engineering --- Structural design --- Wind pressure --- Load factors --- Wind loads --- Wind tunnel --- Aerodynamics.

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Sponsored by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. On December 1-4, 2007, a series of storms with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains lashed the U.S. Pacific Northwest, hitting southwestern Washington and northwestern Oregon especially hard. These storms dropped 37 cm (14.5 in) of rain with gusts up to 206 km/h (129 mph). The storms caused major flooding and landslides, taking five lives and causing extensive damage to infrastructure throughout the region. This TCLEE report discusses in detail the effects of the Pacific Northwest Storms on lifeline infrastructure systems: highways, electric power, water, wastewater/stormwater, telecommunications, coasts and waterways, and emergency response. Chapters focus on a particular system and provide an overview of the system's performance, following by a discussion of the system, its damage, the emergency response, and recover. Each chapter finishes with observations and recommendations. This monograph will be of particular interest to civil engineers, managers, planners, and government officials charged with maintaining lifeline infrastructure systems during extreme wind events and other natural hazards.

Emergency management --- Winter storms --- Storms --- Lifeline systems --- Hydro power --- Highways and roads --- Wind engineering --- Rainfall --- Infrastructure --- United States --- Pacific Northwest --- Washington --- Oregon --- Evaluation.

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Prepared by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil EngineersPrestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design presents recommended alternatives to the prescriptive procedures for wind design of buildings contained in the nationally adopted standard Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE 7) and in the International Building Code (IBC). Developed as a response to increasing interest in performance-based design (PBD), this prestandard aids in resolving conflicts in performance objectives that exist when using prescriptive procedures for the wind design and performance-based procedures for seismic design of individual buildings. It facilitatesdesign of more efficient buildings thatadhere todesired building functionality requirements and reduce property damage from wind while meeting public safety and performance requirements. Major innovations introduced include nonlinear dynamic analysis for wind design, limited inelasticity in the Main Wind Force Resisting System elements, system-based performance criteria, and enhanced design criteria for the building envelope.This document will be of benefit tostructural engineers, architects, building component and cladding specifiers/designers, and building officials engaged in the wind design and review of buildings. The prestandard also benefits building owners and developers, as wellas the general public.

Tall buildings  --- Tall buildings --- Wind-pressure. --- Building design --- Wind engineering --- Performance-based design --- Building codes --- Seismic design --- Buildings --- Standards and codes --- Public health and safety --- Aerodynamics --- Standards. --- Standards

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Significant Changes to the Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-10: An Illustrated Guide focuses on the updates to the wind load requirements set forth in the latest edition of the Standard for minimum design loads. The wind load provisions have undergone the most extensive revision since the 1995 edition the Standard. Mirroring the organization of the wind chapters in ASCE 7-10, this handy reference briefly summarizes each change to the wind provisions that might affect actual practice or enforcement and immediately follows up with the precise wording of the change. The impact of each update is explained in clear, straightforward language accompanied by diagrams, examples, and color photographs and illustrations to enrich the reader's understanding. Significant Changes to the Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-10: An Illustrated Guide translates the changes to the wind load provisions of ASCE Standard 7-10 into a form readily accessible by structural engineers, architects, contractors, building officials and inspectors, and allied professionals.

Wind-pressure --- Buildings --- Gust loads --- Structural engineering --- Wind loads --- Load factors --- Professional societies --- Load tests --- Standards and codes --- Wind engineering --- Wind tunnel --- Standards --- Aerodynamics

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Prepared by the Aerospace Division of ASCE. Wind Tunnel Studies of Buildings and Structures provides guidelines to assist architects and engineers involved with wind tunnel model testing of buildings and structures. Wind tunnel testing of the final structure and of the structure during construction is desirable to improve the reliability of structural performance and to achieve cost effectiveness. This revised edition includes procedures that can provide representative information on wind effects during certain wind conditions and also methods for using this information to develop statistical predictions of full-scale behavior. New developments are presented in the wind engineering field and wind tunnel studies of the dispersion of pollutants around buildings and in urban environments.

Wind-pressure. --- Buildings --- Wind tunnels. --- Wind tunnel --- Wind engineering --- Structural reliability --- Wind loads --- Field tests --- Load factors --- Professional societies --- Aerodynamics --- Testing.