Design of Low-Rise Buildings for Extreme Wind Events |
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Authors: | Rima Taher |
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Affiliation: | Special Lecturer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey School of Architecture, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102. E-mail: taher@adm.njit.edu
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Abstract: | Damages from hurricanes and various windstorm events represent a loss of several billions of dollars in the United States. A loss of $30 billion was attributed to Hurricane Andrew alone in Florida in 1993. In 2004 and 2005, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and other locations in the southeast United States and the Caribbean saw an unprecedented wave of major hurricanes causing great destruction and property damage. This paper discusses the topic of home design for high winds and hurricanes, and sums up a recently completed practical research on this subject. |
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Keywords: | Wind force Wind tunnel tests Typhoons Cyclones Buildings, low-rise Buildings, residential Structural design Structural behavior |
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