Abstract:Commonly used methods to estimate peak wind pressures on buildings are summarized. The Harris (2009) penultimate XIMIS method is described and calibrated against Gumbel epochal extreme-value analysis (EVA), as well as with the Hermite-Davenport peak factor method by Yang et al. (2013) (YGP) using a very long record of wind tunnel data from many pressure taps. The "industry standard" EVA, comprising sixteen 10-min epochs, gives the best accuracy, but is inefficient in its use of data. YGP is the least accurate,… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.