Author(s)

G.T. Taylor & P. Wu

Abstract

In recent years an expanding market for light skeletal structures such as walkways, shelters and large bus stations has required constructors and customers to seek information on their behaviour when subject to wind excitation. The design of structures, taking into consideration the criteria associated with the dynamic response to wind excitation, is a specialised and highly complex task. The most significant guide for designers available at present is that produced by ESDU International pic. This is however apparently limited to particular types of structures and requires considerable interpretation in its use. The paper reports on an examination of the dynamic response of light aluminium/steel structures, where the required dynamic analysis was

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