Acknowledgement

I would like to express my deep gratitude to Dr. Nguyen Thi Dung Hue, my
research supervisor, for her patient guidance, enthusiastic encouragement and useful
critiques of this research work. I would also like to thank Dr. ***, for her advice and
assistance in keeping my progress on schedule. My grateful thanks are also extended
to Mr. *** for his help in doing the meteorological data analysis, to Ms ***, who
helped me calculate the wind pressure coefficient and to Ms *** and Mr. *** for their
support in the site measurement.

I would also like to extend my thanks to the technicians of the laboratory of the
*** department for their help in offering me the resources in running the program.

Finally, I wish to thank my parents for their support and encouragement

throughout my study.