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Solidity Ratio for Golf Ball Protection Screen

Solidity Ratio for Golf Ball Protection Screen

Solidity Ratio for Golf Ball Protection Screen

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I recently saw a golf ball netting foundation designed with a 6ft x 6ft x 12foot deep concrete footing for the tower poles. The designer told me that the protective netting was based on a 100% solid surface area. Does anyone have any experience with this type of wind loads and foundation design. Any tips will be appreciated. Thanks.

RE: Solidity Ratio for Golf Ball Protection Screen

Is your goal to reduce the foundation size by reducing the wind load by taking account of the open area of the net?

RE: Solidity Ratio for Golf Ball Protection Screen

There's a golf course just outside my window with netting to keep golf balls out of our parking lot.  Whenever they have a tournament, they put big advertising banners on the netting, making it 100% solid.

Bob

RE: Solidity Ratio for Golf Ball Protection Screen

See thread507-143083: Netting Wind Loads.

In that thread I mention that we were a 3rd party reviewer for a driving range net support system. The system was designed by an engineer who had designed hundreds of these net supports all over the country.  I thought the designer's wind load was low and proposed the wind load you see in the thread. It's five years later and I ride my bicycle past the driving range every day on my way to work.  The poles are fine.  The nets are tearing.

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