Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Recent Wind Engineering Developments in the Philippines: 2007-2009

by Benito M. Pacheco, William T. Tanzo, and Ronwaldo Emmanuel R. Aquino, 2009, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Regional Harmonization of Wind Loading and Wind Environmental Specifications in Asia-Pacific Economies (APEC-WW-2009), Tamkang University, Y-Lan County, Taiwan; co-organized by the Global Center of Excellence Program on New Frontiers of Wind Engineering Research and Education, Tokyo Polytechnic University.




Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Recent wind engineering activities in the Philippines

by Benito M. Pacheco, William T. Tanzo, and Ronwaldo E. R. Aquino, 2009, Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering (APCWE-VII), Taipei, Taiwan.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Performance-based design

Performance-based design (PBD) has been a "buzz" word in the earthquake engineering field in the last decade, and in the wind engineering field, some have proposed it to be adopted as well although others say that it is actually the practice already.  This online essay by R.E.R. Aquino discusses a view of what PBD is:

http://ronjie-engg.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-does-performance-based-design-mean.html

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Multi-Tiered Evaluation of Existing Structures

If you are familiar with FEMA publications related to seismic evaluation of existing buildings, you may have heard of the terms "Rapid Visual Assessment," "Tier 1 Screening Procedure," "Tier 2 Evaluation Procedure," and "Tier 3 Detailed Evaluation Procedure," and even "Seismic Rehabilitation."