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Wind forces in engineering /
Wind Forces in Engineering.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
1978.
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| Edición: | 2d ed. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Wind Forces in Engineering; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; 1.1. Past and Present; 1.2. Basic Considerations; 1.3. History; 1.4. Thesis; 1.5. Principal Sources of Information; 1.6. Terminology; CHAPTER 2. Wind Data; 2.1. Air Movement; 2.2. Wind Measurement; 2.3. Wind-speed Measurements; 2.4. Wind Data Obtained; 2.5. Maxima for Non-recorded Sites; 2.6. Tropical Storms and Tornadoes; 2.7. Wind-speed Variation with Height; 2.8. Miscellaneous Effects; 2.9. Design Requirements; CHAPTER 3. Basic Shape Factors.
- 3.1. Shape Factors3.2. Pressure Distributions; 3.3. Forces on Basic Shapes; 3.4. Trusses; 3.5. Meshes; 3.6. Moments; 3.7. Other Force and Moment Data; CHAPTER 4. Wind-tunnel Techniques; 4.1. Wind-tunnels; 4.2. Models; 4.3. Wind-tunnel Conventions; 4.4. Measurement Corrections; 4.5. Wind-tunnel Measurements and Calculations; 4.6. Random Turbulence and Excitation; CHAPTER 5. Dynamic Effects; 5.1. Basic Considerations; 5.2. Rigid Structures-Single-frequency Excitation; 5.3. Single-frequency Excitations; 5.4. Flutter; 5.5. Rigid Structures-Random Excitation.
- 5.6. Flexible Structures (multi-degree-of-freedom systems)5.7. Fatigue Loading; CHAPTER 6. Bridges; 6.1. Static Forces; 6.2. Dynamic Forces; 6.3. Excitation; 6.4. Buffeting; CHAPTER 7. Buildings; 7.1. Static Wind Effects; 7.2. Dynamic Effects on Buildings; 7.3. Design Procedure for Wind Forces on Buildings; 7.4. Air-flow around Buildings; CHAPTER 8. Masts and Towers; 8.1. Shape Factors; 8.2. Mast and Tower Movement due to Gust Excitations; 8.3. Non-gusting Excitation of Masts and Towers; 8.4. Miscellaneous Excitations; CHAPTER 9. Special Structures; 9.1. Cables; 9.2. Cooling Towers.
- 9.3. Radar and Communications Aerials9.4. Radomes; CHAPTER 10. Codes of Practice; 10.1. Wind-speed Regions; 10.2. Topographical Factors; 10.3. Wind Variation with Height; 10.4. Ice and Snow Loads; 10.5. Gust Effects; 10.6. Shape Factors; 10.7. Pressure Coefficients; 10.8. Shielding Effects; 10.9. Buildings, Roofs and Cladding; 10.10. Cross-wind Effects; 10.11. Chimneys, Tanks, etc; 10.12. Towers, Masts and Trusses; 10.13. Tables from Reference 136; APPENDIX 1: Notation Used in Chapters 1-9; APPENDIX 2: Standard Aerodynamic and Conversion Data.