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Wind and Structures
  Volume 36, Number 1, January 2023 , pages 15-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2023.36.1.015
 


A revised Hermite peak factor model for non-Gaussian wind pressures on high-rise buildings and comparison of methods
Dongmei Huang, Hongling Xie and Qiusheng Li

 
Abstract
    To better estimate the non-Gaussian extreme wind pressures for high-rise buildings, a data-driven revised Hermitetype peak factor estimation model is proposed in this papar. Subsequently, a comparative study on three types of methods, such as Hermite-type models, short-time estimate Gumbel method (STE), and new translated-peak-process method (TPP) is carried out. The investigations show that the proposed Hermite-type peak factor has better accuracy and applicability than the other Hermite-type models, and its absolute accuracy is slightly inferior to the STE and new TPP methods for non-Gaussian wind pressures by comparing with the observed values. Moreover, these methods generally overestimate the Gaussian wind pressures especially the STE.
 
Key Words
    high-rise building; method comparison; non-Gaussian process; peak factor; wind pressure
 
Address
Dongmei Huang:1)School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410075, China
2)National Engineering Research Center of High-speed Railway Construction Technology, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410075, China

Hongling Xie:School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410075, China

Qiusheng Li:Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
 

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