Discussion of 'Ultimate Wind Load Design Gust Wind Speeds in the United States for Use in ASCE-7' by Peter J. Vickery, Dhiraj Wadhera, Jon Galsworthy, Jon A. Peterka, Peter A. Irwin, and Lawrence A. Griff is

摘要

Given that large synthetic hurricane wind speed data sets were produced for the development of the ASCE 7-10 Standard maps, the authors could help elucidate the question of whether hurricane winds in the United States are best fitted by the Gumbel or the reverse Weibull distribution (see, e.g., Heckert et al. 1998; Simiu and Miyata 2006, p. 34), at least for a few mileposts. This contribution would be particularly valuable in that it would enable improved structural reliability assessments. The credibility of the results would be enhanced if a long hurricane data set for at least one hurricane milepost were posted by the authors on the internet.