Wind load Analysis on a Circular Building with a Dome Roof
Wind load Analysis on a Circular Building with a Dome Roof
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If there is anyone out there that could give me some tips on how to analyze a circluar building with a dome roof that would be great. The roof's mean height is greater than 60' so I cannot use method 1 of the ASCE 7-98. I figured I would have to use method 2. Under method 2 the Cp value is confusing me, what table in ASCE 7-98 should this be taken from? The building's mean roof height is 76.5' and the diameter is 152'. The building is Mackey Basketball Arena at Purdue University. Thanks for any help you can give.






RE: Wind load Analysis on a Circular Building with a Dome Roof
Anyway, the book
Steel, Concrete & Composite Design of Tall Buildings,
2nd. ed.
Bungale S. Taranath
Mc Graw Hill
was quite good at explaining ASCE's wind loads (yet this 2nd. edition wouldn't be yet the last ASCE's).
RE: Wind load Analysis on a Circular Building with a Dome Roof
Figure 6-16 of ASCE 7-02 gives the GCp coefficients for Domed Roofs for all heights of buidings.