The adoption of performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is rapidly becoming
recognized as a fundamental step to reducing the huge economic losses caused by severe …

Over the past decade, significant research efforts have been dedicated to the development
of performance-based wind engineering (PBWE). Notwithstanding these efforts, frameworks …

Conventional water‐electricity cogeneration systems combining solar‐driven interface
evaporators (SIEs) and solar‐thermal‐electric generators (STGs) suffer from limited overall …

Performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is undergoing a period of rapid development
with numerous procedures and frameworks being proposed over the past few years. …

Recent experiment suggested that astrocytes have a non-negligible effect on regulating
neuronal networks and demonstrated how astrocytes influence neuronal firing behavior. In this …

The performance assessment of wind-excited multi-story building systems is undergoing a
period of rapid change with a number of performance assessment frameworks being …

From the post-hazard survey of extreme wind events, such as hurricanes and tropical storms,
the majority of losses to engineered building systems are due to building envelope …

Hurricanes can have adverse effects on residential communities and pose a significant risk
to their economic prosperity. The ingress of water into a building due to wind-driven rain (…

Vibration-induced high-cycle fatigue of blades is a prevalent issue in turbomachinery. Blade
Tip Timing (BTT) emerges as a non-intrusive, promising method for assessing blade …

Performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is becoming an ever more important means
for achieving performance targets set in terms of system-level probabilistic metrics. Since its …