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Response Of A Two-Story Residential House Under Realistic Fluctuating Wind Loads, Murray J. Morrison
Response Of A Two-Story Residential House Under Realistic Fluctuating Wind Loads, Murray J. Morrison
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Severe wind storms such as tropical cyclones, tornados, downbursts etc. can cause significant damage to infrastructure. Damage surveys following these events have shown that the roofs of residential, wood-frame construction are particularly vulnerable to failures. While damage surveys provide detail information of what components fail, they cannot provide the loads at which these failures occurred or how they initiated. Wind tunnel pressure models provide detailed information of the wind loads on buildings, however, they are not able to predict failures or how these loads are transferred through the structure. In order to better understand the response of wood framed houses …