Design Experience Gained Through Physical Modeling of Small-Craft Harbors
A research work unit has been initiated to determine the state-of-knowledge of small boat harbor design. Existing design criteria for small-craft harbor design is based primarily on 'rule-of-thumb'...
Physical Model Testing of Barbers Point Harbor and Marina Complex
A three-dimensional, physical model study of the Barbers Point, Hawaii harbor and marina complex is being conducted at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering...
Marina Flushing Along a Structurally Controlled Canal
Evaluation of flushing characteristics of a proposed marina located along a structurally controlled navigable canal is reported. This canal is operated to maintain the water level of Lake...
Application of a Numerical Model to Develop Marina Concepts
A numerical model is presented to evaluate wave conditions in a marina basin for development and analysis of marina concepts. This model is based on the boundary integral equation method...
A New Australian Standard for Marinas
The paper describes the procedure adopted to develop the Standard together with a description of the more important issues that were addressed....
Air-Water Mass Transfer
This monograph, Air-Water Mass Transfer: Selected Papers from the Second International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, consists of papers presented at the Symposium which...
Recent Advances in Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Testing in Soil Dynamics
This proceedings,
Guide to the Use of the Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-88 (formerly ANSI A58.1)
The objective of the
Probabilistic Assessment of Wind Loading For Structural Analysis
Records of extreme annual gust velocities from 11 weather stations in central-southern Brazil, classified according to orientation (octants) and type of storm (TS and EPS winds), result...
Wind-Induced Response of Torsionally Coupled Buildings
This paper summarizes the results of a comprehensive three-dimensional dynamic analysis of tall buildings subjected to fluctuating wind forces. Random vibration theory is used to relate...
Time Dependent Stochastic Characteristics of the Lateral Random Vibration of Tall Structures with Circular Cross-Section
From full scale measurement of the pressure field at three levels of a concrete chimney with 230 m height the lift coefficient is deduced and the lateral oscillation is investigated. The...
Reliability Analysis in Estimating Turbulent Wind Force on Offshore Structures
This paper presents the results of a reliability analysis carried out to estimate low frequency turbulent wind drag force (including extreme values) acting on a floating offshore structure....
Identification of Critical Load Distributions for Wind Loading
For practical application as well as for sophisticated investigations, the time dependent stochastic wind process has to be simplified in terms of input data to the calculation. Usually,...
Optimal Distribution of Tuned Mass Dampers in Wind-Sensitive Structures
Modern high-rise buildings are susceptible to excessive accelerations at the upper floors in wind storms due to flexibility and low damping. In order to keep acceleration levels below...
Reliability of Bridges in Turbulent Wind
The present study investigates the stability of bridge motion by means of almost sure or sample stability criteria. An asymptotically exact approximation for the top Lyapunov exponent...
Buffeting Response of Bridges
The present study provides a theoretical analysis of the behavior of the response of long-span bridges to turbulent wind loads in the region of stable motion. The analysis is based on...
Fully Nonlienar Models to Simulate Structural Response to Wind Loading
The paper summarizes some results of the analyses of two tall broadcasting towers, obtained by means of a specially developed numerical procedure taking into account all relevant nonlinear...
Wind Loads on Large Broadcasting Antennas: Records and Elaborations
Alternative estimations of the 50-year gust winds from the data available in typical Italian sites of broadcasting antennas are summarized and compared with the design winds suggested...
Safety Analysis of Steel Building Frames Under Dynamic Wind Loading
A method is presented for evaluating the lifetime risk of failure, in terms of probability of excessive inter-floor deflection, for a class of steel building frames subjected to dynamic...
On the Reliability of Offshore Platforms Against Random Sea Waves and Earthquake Motions
Dynamic response of offshore structures to random sea waves and strong earthquake motions is investigated. The wave-structure interaction is represented using the generalized Morison equation...
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