Advanced Structural Wind Engineering

This book serves as a textbook for advanced courses as it introduces state-of-the-art information and the latest research results on diverse problems in the structural wind engineering field. The topics include wind climates, design wind speed estimation, bluff body aerodynamics and applications, wi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Tamura, Yukio. (Editor), Kareem, Ahsan. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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