Abstract: The current North American design codes for wind loads have dealt with the unique characteristics of glass using the observed failure mechanism of static fatigue, which is based on the concept of damage accumulation as ...

Abstract: The glass failure prediction model has been used as a calculation method for the load resistance (LR) of glass specified in North American design codes. However, because of the technology available, this model has only ...

Abstract: Duration effects on the design wind loads for glass are examined with respect to ASCE 7-10. Pressure time histories are created by combining variations of wind speed and wind direction from a “design cyclone” with pressure ...

Abstract: During strong windstorms, sheathing and siding on residential, wood-framed, wall systems have commonly failed. In the current study, a clear difference is observed in the rate of failure occurrence for wall sheathing above ...

Abstract: The enhanced-Fujita scale (EF-scale) is used to identify tornado intensity. It uses several damage indicators (DIs), each of which has descriptions of the degrees-of-damage (DOD) along with associated wind speeds. Recent ...

Abstract: The lack of a standard accepted method to estimate local peak pressure coefficients from wind tunnel data can lead to inconsistent definitions and interpretations, particularly because cost and time constraints associated ...

Abstract: This paper describes the “Three Little Pigs” Project at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes of the University of Western Ontario. The goal of the project is to find optimal solutions for mitigating wind damage to ...