Abstract: This paper presents a wind performance–based evaluation of an existing 47-story steel moment frame high-rise building designed and built in the early 1970s according to the Houston Building Code in effect at the time with ...

Abstract: Porous safety fences are increasingly being incorporated into the deck furniture at or near the edges of many long-span bridges, and these tall fences (often 3–4 m high) may become blocked during winter storms. The ...

Abstract: Modern structural design codes assume a statistically stationary climate. However, it is now known that the climate is changing at a rate that calls into question the stationarity assumption. This study was undertaken to ...

Abstract: Most building codes have assumed stationary historical climatic data that can be statistically extrapolated to the future. However, nonstationarity has been shown in projections of future climatic data relevant to the ...