1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826456903321

Autore

Simiu Emil

Titolo

Wind effects on structures : modern structural design for wind / / Emil Simiu, P.E., Ph.D., NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, DongHun Yeo, P.E., Ph.D., Research Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey ; ; Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2019

ISBN

1-119-37593-2

1-5231-2861-5

1-119-37589-4

1-119-37590-8

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (523 pages)

Collana

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Disciplina

624.175

Soggetti

Wind-pressure

Buildings - Aerodynamics

Wind resistant design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The typical process by which engineered buildings are designed for wind loads in current practice has serious shortcomings. This is due to the inadequate pressure measurement technology and computational resources at the time of its development, and to an ineffective framework for the cooperation between wind and structural engineers. As a result, independent estimates of wind forces on major tall buildings performed in the early 2000s by prominent wind engineering laboratories were found to differ from each other by over 40 %. This finding, and similar findings reported in the literature, prompted intense research efforts that, along with the development of the pressure scanner, led to major advances in the state of the art. However, these advances have not yet been integrated effectively into design practice"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910346669303321

Autore

Li Xiaofeng

Titolo

Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals from Remote Sensing / Xiaofeng Li, Jorge Vazquez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2018

ISBN

9783038974802

3038974803

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (340 p.)

Soggetti

Chemistry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book covers topics ranging from a detailed error analysis of SSTs to new applications employed, for example, in the study of the El Niño-La Niña Southern Oscillation, lake temperatures, and coral bleaching. New techniques for interpolation and algorithm development are presented, including improvements for cloud detection. Analysis of the pixel-to-pixel uncertainties provides insight to applications for high spatial resolutions. New approaches for the estimation and evaluation of SSTs are presented. In addition, an overview of the Climate Change Initiative, with specific applications to SST, is presented. The book provides an excellent overview of the current technology, while also highlighting new technologies and their applications to new missions.