Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the Database-Assisted Design (DAD) methodology, and describes its motivation, the technological developments that enabled its development, and its main features. DAD is an integrated methodology that does not just calculate wind loadings, but rather performs the automatic calculation of internal forces and demand-to-capacity indexes, and the detailed verification of the adequacy of the structural design. The paper discusses interpolation issues, wind directionality effects, and the estimation of wind effects with specified mean recurrence intervals. It concludes by noting the potential of using DAD in conjunction with Computational Fluid Dynamics methods.
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