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6. Cooperative Efforts
6. Cooperative Efforts
Pages 102-107
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Cooperative research efforts by industry and academia in seeking answers for improved design of wind-resistant systems will greatly speed progress in this area and will provide more visibility for the resultant research findings. A generous financial commitment toward research and development by the building industry and materials manufacturers could help provide much-needed resources to augment the limited funding currently available from the National Science Foundation and other federal a~enci~c The size of this commitment could, for example, be determined as a percentage of total construction costs.
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For example, the roofing industry realizes that failures of roofing and connectors constitute a large portion of the total damage cost attributable to extreme winds. By pooling available inflation on reasons for these failures and by helping to fund a cooperative research program with academia, industry could help promote a major step forward in this area.
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The w~nd-engineering program in the United States can gain much from cooperative projects by participating in more international postdisaster windstorm damage surveys to learn of Nature mechanisms and by encouraging more mutual exchange of the latest technology for improving the design of structures to withstand the effects of strong winds. In addition, the International Standards Organization has been promoting common guidelines in Europe for designing for wind effects.
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The boundary-layer wind tunnels at the Public Works Research Institute and the Building Research Institute are extremely well equipped for physical model studies of buildings and structures, and several universities also have wind tunnels available for studying wind effects on structures. Cooperative U.S.-Japan research efforts will therefore greatly benefit the U.S.
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As stated in Chapter 2, the difficulty in obtaining reliably recorded wind speeds near the ground has been a hindrance to the development of a good data base for denv~ng reliable design wind speeds. In addition to the above, it should be noted that recent events in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union may lead to additional opportunities for sharing wind data and conducting cooperative research with these countnes.
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under the rubric of the IDNDR with a special emphasis on developing a mutual research program with Japan, whose state-of-the-art research facilities provide important opportunities for study not available in the United States.
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