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Virginia Tech

CEE-5404: Structural Wind Engineering

Description: Wind loads and their effects on buildings and bridges. Application of wind load provisions in codes and standards. Bluff-body aerodynamics. Wind tunnel tests. Computational fluid dynamics and full-scale measurements to quantify wind loads. Application of limit states to design problems. Wind hazard, damage, and risk. Performance-based wind engineering. Damping systems. Pre: Graduate Standing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 5

Average GPA: 3.65 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 59.44%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

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