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1. Show how this maybe is an open, partially enclosed, or enclosed building.
2. Determine the internal pressure coefficients.
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3. Determine the external pressure coefficients for the design of main girders and shear walls.
4. Determine the base reactions due to alongwind loads acting on the front wall of the building.
1. The building satisfies all definitions of a partially enclosed building (NSCP 2010 Section 207.2).
2. The internal pressure coefficients for a partially enclosed building (GCpi) are +/ 0.55 (NSCP Figure
2075).
3. The external pressure coefficients on MWFRS (from NSCP 2010 Figure 2076) are as follows:
windward wall, Cp = 0.8
leeward wall, Cp = 0.5 since L = 10m, B = 10m, and L/B = 1
side walls, Cp = 0.7
whole roof, Cp = 1.04 or 0.18 since h = 20m, h/L = 2, L <= h/2 = 10m, and Roof Area = 100 sq.m > 93
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To calculate the design wind force at each level, we need to multiply net design wind pressures at each
level with tributary areas. To get net design wind pressures, we calculate pressures on both windward and
leeward faces. On each face, we need to calculate the net of external and internal pressures. To get Privacy Information
external and internal pressures, we need first to calculate the velocity pressures at each level. To calculate
by hand, it is easiest to do this in table form but with a computer, a spreadsheet makes it much easier:
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Good day sir! i'd like to ask if the qz/velocity pressure in the nscp acts perpendicular ► July (5)
to the roof surface or perpendicular to the vertical projection of the roof..
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ronjiedotcom Mod > strife • 6 months ago
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You don't actually apply q_z on a roof surface, you apply q_h (which is q_z
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with z = h). The figures show or indicate that the NSCP wind pressures are
either positive (pressing action) or negative (suction) which means they're ► January (1)
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strife > ronjiedotcom • 6 months ago
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thank you sir..so, how about if its a truss analysis? where should i
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start my computation sir? with reference to the Nscp..im at a lost in
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ronjiedotcom Mod > strife • 6 months ago
For vertical truss structures, wind forces are always applied POPULAR POSTS
horizontally. For roof trusses, they are applied perpendicular
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to the surface receiving the wind pressures.
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strife > ronjiedotcom • 6 months ago
UBC or IBC? Revisiting the
in reference with NSCP sir,wat is the equation to use for the
justifications for moving
wind load acting on a truss alone? And also In staad, Can i from UBC to IBC as basis for
new NSCP earthquake
consider a single truss only considering loads(dead,live,wind)
loading provisions
in tributary area?!
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The answer to your first question is in the NSCP. For any ASEP Forum on Billboards
structural analysis whether using STAAD or another software,
of course you can consider a single truss considering only the
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