Abstract: When subjected to strong sustained fluctuating wind uplift, screw-fastened light-gauge-steel profiled roofing sheets may fail locally in the vicinity of fasteners by cracking due to fatigue, resulting in the sheeting being ...

Abstract: Strong wind pressures can cause severe fatigue damage to the screw-fastened light gauge steel roofing of low-rise buildings. An approach to determine the fatigue loading of roof cladding is presented here. The rain-flow ...

Abstract: Wind-induced fatigue loading and damage to roof claddings on gable-roof and hip-roof buildings are investigated in this study through both wind tunnel tests and computer analyses. The magnitude and distribution of wind ...

Abstract: This paper presents both free and forced vibration analyses of inclined cables, including the effects of cable sag, equipped with oil dampers in cable-stayed bridges by using a hybrid method recently developed by the ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental investigation on the applicability of the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) for identifying structural damage caused by a sudden change of structural stiffness. A three-story shear ...

Abstract: This paper explores how to characterize nonstationary wind speed that can be modeled as a deterministic time-varying mean wind speed component plus a stationary random process for the fluctuating wind speed component. The ...

Abstract: Based on wind‐tunnel measurements of wind‐induced response of tall buildings, a semianalytical method of performing parametric study of tuned mass dampers for tall buildings is proposed. This method was verified through a ...