The Nature of Windstorm and Wind Induced Damages
1.1 Introduction
Wind loading competes with seismic loading as the dominant environmental loading for
structures. They have produced roughly equal amounts of damage over a long time period,
although large damaging earthquakes have tended to occur less often than severe windstorms.
On almost every day of the year a severe windstorm is happening somewhere on
earth – although many storms are small and localized. In the tropical oceans, the most
severe of all wind events – tropical cyclones – are generated. When these storms make
landfall on populated coastlines, their effects can be devastating.
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