ASCE 7 Maps
ASCE 7 Maps
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I'm a new engineer and just started my first job :)
I have been asked to design shearwalls for single family houses and use ASCE to obtain loads. I design in a few states and obtaining wind speeds via ASCE7-05 maps is tedious (blury and small) each time I need to determine the wind speed in a certain location.
There has got to be a better way to get this information. Anyone know if there is software to get the wind speeds based off of ASCE7-05?
I have been asked to design shearwalls for single family houses and use ASCE to obtain loads. I design in a few states and obtaining wind speeds via ASCE7-05 maps is tedious (blury and small) each time I need to determine the wind speed in a certain location.
There has got to be a better way to get this information. Anyone know if there is software to get the wind speeds based off of ASCE7-05?






RE: ASCE 7 Maps
Something else to watch for is that some of the wind speeds are defined by local ordinance instead of the maps. For example, I remember seeing some rule in Texas that showed the Intracoastal Canal as the dividing line between two wind speeds. You'd never deduce that from the maps.
If you're using the maps a lot, get a good copier and you can blow each state up to 11x17 or so. You can even copy them onto tracing paper, then adjust the scale to fit over the state map in an atlas.
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old CA SE
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Wind:
http://www.windspeedbyzip.com/
Seismic:
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Arlord,
Those links were very helpful.
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