TY  - CHAP
A1  - Meskouris, Konstantin
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Hinzen, Klaus-G.
A1  - Höffer, Rüdiger
T1  - Stochasticity of Wind Processes and Spectral Analysis of Structural Gust Response
T2  - Structural Dynamics with Applications in Earthquake and Wind Engineering
N2  - Wind loads have great impact on many engineering structures. Wind storms often cause irreparable damage to the buildings which are exposed to it. Along with the earthquakes, wind represents one of the most common environmental load on structures and is relevant for limit state design. Modern wind codes indicate calculation procedures allowing engineers to deal with structural systems, which are susceptible to conduct wind-excited oscillations. In the codes approximate formulas for wind buffeting are specified which relate the dynamic problem to rather abstract parameter functions. The complete theory behind is not visible in order to simplify the applicability of the procedures. This chapter derives the underlying basic relations of the spectral method for wind buffeting and explains the main important applications of it in order to elucidate part of the theoretical background of computations after the new codes. The stochasticity of the wind processes is addressed, and the analysis of analytical as well as measurement based power spectra is outlined. Short MATLAB codes are added to the Appendix 3 which carry out the computation of a single sided auto-spectrum from a statistically stationary, discrete stochastic process. Two examples are presented.
KW  - Wind turbulence
KW  - Gust wind response
KW  - Spectral analysis
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-662-57550-5 (Online)
SN  - 978-3-662-57548-2 (Print)
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57550-5_3
SP  - 153
EP  - 196
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Meskouris, Konstantin
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Kalker, Ines
A1  - Mistler, Michael
T1  - Numerical simulation of historic masonry buildings
T2  - Antike Erdbeben im alpinen und zirkumalpinen Raum : Befunde und Probleme in archäologischer, historischer und seismologischer Sicht ; Beiträge des Interdisziplinären Workshops Schloss Hohenkammer, 14./15. Mai 2004 = Earthquakes in antiquity in the alpine and circum-alpine region / Gerhard H. Waldherr ; Anselm Smolka (Hrsg.) (Geographica Historica ; 24)
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 978-3-515-09030-8 ; 3-515-09030-4
SP  - 171
EP  - 189
PB  - Franz Steiner Verlag
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  -