Abstract: This paper describes the performance of buildings and other constructed facilities in the Houston‐Galveston area during Hurricane Alicia on August 18, 1983. Records obtained from 17 anemometer sites in the Houston‐Galveston ...

Abstract: The lateral‐torsional motion of tall buildings is investigated. For a square cross‐section building, expressions for the alongwind, acrosswind and torsional loading are developed through the use of spatio‐temporal fluctuations ...

Abstract: The performance of building cladding in the Houston‐Galveston area during Hurricane Alicia is described. Following an overview of the damage based on the observations made by the writer, various possible mechanisms of ...

Abstract: Measurements of spatio-temporal pressure fluctuations on the windward and leeward faces of a typical tall building model exposed to simulated suburban flow conditions are reported. These results are utilized to examine the ...

Abstract: A treatment of the mapping and synthesis of random pressure fields is presented that highlights the concepts of point, spatially and/or temporally averaged random pressure fluctuations in the context of local or integral ...

Abstract: The contribution of the nonlinear wind velocity term to the wind induced dynamic response of compliant offshore structures, e.g., a tension leg platform is evaluated. The analysis is carried out both in time and frequency ...

Abstract: Fluctuating surface pressures on a bluff body exposed to a boundary layer flow generally are characterized as a spatiotemporally varying random field. In this paper, a dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) was applied to extract ...

Abstract: This paper examines efficacy of tuned mass dampers (TMD) in controlling self-excited motion resulting from negative damping. New optimal TMD parameters are suggested which provide better performance than those suggested ...