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WIND LOAD ESTIMATION ON TALL BUILDING PART I: COMPARISON OF RUSSIAN AND NIGERIAN CODES OF PRACTICE

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This paper presents a comparison study of Russian and Nigerian standards and codes of practice on wind load estimation for tall buildings. Despite the similarity of the philosophy on which the codes were developed some sizable scatter exist among the wind loading estimation by the codes under similar wind flow conditions and location. Hence the paper seeks to present this scatte r as regards static behaviour of a 10-storey building. It is to be noted that the scatter in the predicted wind load arises primarily from the variations in wind field factors and their values recommended in both codes.

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