Wind Loads: Guide to the Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-05
Kishor C. Mehta, Ph.D., P.E., Distinguished Member of ASCE, Horn Professor of Civil Engineering, is the founder former Director of Wind Science and Engineering Research Center at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. He served as Chairman of the ASCE 7 Task Committee on Wind loads, which produced ASCE 7-88 and ASCE 7-95. He was lead author of the Guide to the Use of Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-95, ASCE 7-98 and ASCE 7-02. William L. Coulbourne, P.E., is the Director, Wind and Flood Hazard Mitigation for the Applied Technology Council with his office located in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He is a member of the ASCE 7 Wind Load Task Committee and the ASCE 7 Main Committee.