Abstract: This paper examines the glass cladding damage accumulation caused by wind loading. The primary focus is the effect of the non-Gaussian nature of wind pressure fluctuations. The damage is estimated using the Monte Carlo ...

Abstract: A model for estimating the peak dynamic response distribution of a nonlinear beam, based on a special class of non-Gaussian stochastic processes, is proposed in this paper. It is shown that the stochastic response of a ...

Abstract: The present study is the logical successor to a preceding paper where the nature of wind pressures on a tall building was investigated by wind tunnel experimental tests. The statistical analysis showed that the pressure ...

Abstract: This paper and a companion paper present a complete study (analysis, modeling, and numerical simulation) of the wind pressure field on prismatic tall buildings, taking into account its non-Gaussian nature. In this paper, ...

Abstract: Peak values in time histories of wind effects may be obtained by using the entire information inherent in the time series of the wind effect, a method entailing the estimation of the probability distribution of the peak ...

Abstract: We present a procedure for estimating peaks of non-Gaussian processes representing fluctuating internal forces induced by wind in low-rise building frames. The procedure is designed for inclusion in computer programs that ...

Abstract: A method is proposed for generating samples of irregular masonry walls that capture the essential statistics of a given population. The method first entails characterizing the geometry of scaled star-like inclusions by ...