Performance-based design is fast becoming the benchmark approach for achieving designs
that rationally meet society's need for a truly safe built environment. While the principles of …

The most appropriate statistical technique to estimate a peak pressure coefficient from wind
tunnel data is not a settled issue. The lack of a standard acceptable method can lead to …

Written by a highly respected expert in the field, this book provides the first comprehensive
coverage of SHM. It reviews the various types of sensors currently used in SHM and …

Performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is gaining consensus as an alternative to
current wind design procedures for its potential to allow the explicit evaluation of system …

As inelastic design for wind is embraced by the engineering community, there is an
increasing demand for computational tools that enable the investigation of the nonlinear …

Accurate estimation of skewness and kurtosis is crucial for addressing issues related to non-
Gaussian wind pressure distribution fitting, signal simulation, and extreme estimation. The …

This paper introduces a framework for the performance-based design (PBD) of high-rise
buildings with respect to the occupant comfort performance objective. The performance is …

The introduction of performance-based wind engineering has opened the door to the
potential of designing wind excited structural systems with controlled inelasticity. The …

The integration of topology optimization procedures into modern structural design
frameworks is gaining interest as an innovative approach for achieving more efficient …

Topology optimization is traditionally framed in a static and deterministic setting
notwithstanding the uncertain dynamic nature of many problems. This paper presents a new …