×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

ASCE 7-02

ASCE 7-02

ASCE 7-02

(OP)
For buildings greater than 60 feet, the C & C wall pressures are the same for the full height of the building per Figure 6-17.

Is there any provision in ASCE 7-02 to use less wall pressure on the wall elements that are near the base of the structures?

RE: ASCE 7-02

Not that I am aware of without a wind tunnel study.  Normally suction controls C&C design and these pressures do not tend to vary along the shielded (leeward) side of the building.

RE: ASCE 7-02

the velocity pressure (q) decreases with elevation on a building with h > 60'.

RE: ASCE 7-02

Blake989 - while that is true for the windward side of the building you are required to use qh (q at the maximum height of the building) for the leeward side and since each side could be the leeward side, the suction C&C pressures are constant over the height of the building.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources