The unsatisfying performance of light-frame low-rise buildings under hurricane winds is a
long-standing issue. Most past research effort has been made in creating a wind pressure …

The Florida Coastal Monitoring Program (FCMP) is a multi-university field research program
that was founded in 1998 to study the near-surface wind and rain characteristics of Atlantic …

Wind tunnel tests of generic low buildings have been conducted at the University of Western
Ontario for contribution to the National Institute on Standards and Technology (NIST) …

The effects of ten different opening configurations on the internal pressures in a typical two-
story North American house were examined using volume-scaled, wind tunnel experiments …

Several post-hurricane studies have indicated the prevalence of roof damage in low-rise
wood-frame buildings. One of the major reasons for this includes failure of roof-to-wall …

A building with a dominant opening in a wall may experience internal pressures equal to, or
greater than, the external wind pressures in a severe windstorm. This is a critical design …

This study focuses on internal pressures and wind forces on a gable roof of a low-rise
building with an opening in the roof corner in stationary tornado-like vortices. Three roof …

This paper considers internal pressure fluctuations for a range of building volumes and
dominant wall opening areas. The study recognizes that the air flow in and out of the …

This paper deals with an investigation of the characteristics of net pressures on two
significant roof areas of a low-rise building with two different dominant wall openings. Wind …

The paper presents the results of a study that investigated the effects of wall porosity, inlet-to-
outlet-ratio, opening location, and blockage on internal pressure in buildings with large …