Advanced Environmental Wind Engineering
This book is highly suitable for advanced courses as it introduces state-of-the-art information and the latest research results on diverse problems in the environmental wind engineering field. The topics include indoor natural ventilation, pedestrian wind
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Yukio Tamura • Ryuichiro Yoshie Editors
Advanced Environmental Wind Engineering
Editors Yukio Tamura Tokyo Polytechnic University Kanagawa Japan
Ryuichiro Yoshie Tokyo Polytechnic University Kanagawa Japan
Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing China
ISBN 978-4-431-55910-8 ISBN 978-4-431-55912-2 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-55912-2
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Preface
The effect of wind is a very important issue in the building and structural engineering field. It is said that almost 70–80 % of economic losses due to natural disasters in the world are caused by extreme winds and related water hazards. The risk of future disasters continues to escalate with population shifts towards urban centers and the impending threat of their increased intensity and frequency as hypothesized by potential climate change. Urbanization has also led to the deterioration of regional and global environmental quality with a far-reaching impact on public health. Not only extremely strong wind events or other natural hazards of short duration, but also serious environmental problems should be treated as longlasting hazards causing severe disasters in human society. This calls for a sustainable society that emphasizes reduced energy consumption and improved environmental quality. The over-arching vision of the Tokyo Polytechnic University-Wind engineering Group (TPU–WEG) is to build a sustainable urban environment that is resilient to wind-related events and is in harmony with regional local climates. Its focus is on developing an integrated education and research program that covers a wide spectrum of problems to address wind-related challenges of the next frontiers in urban
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