Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman

Sultanate of oman is a unique country with its distinct demographic and environmental characteristics typical to this country alone. It is also one of the fastest developing economies, giving rise to a spectacular construction spree seen over the last few years. Oman has no code of practices for...

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Main Author: Salim Almaawali, Said Saif
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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description Sultanate of oman is a unique country with its distinct demographic and environmental characteristics typical to this country alone. It is also one of the fastest developing economies, giving rise to a spectacular construction spree seen over the last few years. Oman has no code of practices for wind loading for buildings yet. Hence, many designers adopted foreign codes of practice such as the british standards (bs8110, bs6399) in order to determine the value of basic wind speed for their building design. Such a practice is not appropriate on account of the prevailing differences in climatic and geographic conditions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop the value of basic wind speed map using collected daily wind speed from 13 meteorological stations all around oman. The characteristics of wind speed data have been determined using statistical measures such as mean, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtoses using spss software. Three statistical methods namely gumbel, gringorten and cunnane methods were used for two different distributions (gumbel and generalized pareto distributions) using three different data types (all data, peaks over threshold method (pot), and method of independent storms (mis).
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spelling usm-630632025-10-24T07:20:19Z http://eprints.usm.my/63063/ Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman Salim Almaawali, Said Saif TA1-2040 Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Sultanate of oman is a unique country with its distinct demographic and environmental characteristics typical to this country alone. It is also one of the fastest developing economies, giving rise to a spectacular construction spree seen over the last few years. Oman has no code of practices for wind loading for buildings yet. Hence, many designers adopted foreign codes of practice such as the british standards (bs8110, bs6399) in order to determine the value of basic wind speed for their building design. Such a practice is not appropriate on account of the prevailing differences in climatic and geographic conditions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop the value of basic wind speed map using collected daily wind speed from 13 meteorological stations all around oman. The characteristics of wind speed data have been determined using statistical measures such as mean, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtoses using spss software. Three statistical methods namely gumbel, gringorten and cunnane methods were used for two different distributions (gumbel and generalized pareto distributions) using three different data types (all data, peaks over threshold method (pot), and method of independent storms (mis). 2017-07 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/63063/1/Pages%20from%207-00001783474.pdf Salim Almaawali, Said Saif (2017) Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman. PhD thesis, Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut.
spellingShingle TA1-2040 Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Salim Almaawali, Said Saif
Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman
title Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman
title_full Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman
title_fullStr Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman
title_full_unstemmed Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman
title_short Prediction Of Basic Wind Speed For Oman
title_sort prediction of basic wind speed for oman
topic TA1-2040 Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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http://eprints.usm.my/63063/1/Pages%20from%207-00001783474.pdf