Regarding the amount of space each person takes up, and weighs:
Are there any studies that verify these numbers? I know that everyone seems to have their favorite number; are these actually based
on research?
-CF
It's my opinion that the OP should design for the full calculated snowdrift. While it's true that the wind pressure is going to be higher at the building ends, and that will have an effect on the snow, this is only during a design-level wind event. At extremely high wind speeds the snow might...
You are correct, your roof would seem to be too high to have any effect on the wind pressure for the external stair.
I believe Component and Cladding is the way to go here, and I would use the same pressure as the surrounding walls, but applied normal
to the underside of the stair. The idea...
You have to design any structure as if the other structures aren't there, for exactly the reason that you bring up.
If the structures are removed, the wind pressures would increase on your structure.
I believe that there's a passage in ASCE-7 that explicitly calls for this, but I don't have the...
The sheer magnitude of this problem is amazing.
Does the local government care about this issue?
If not, can the international community apply any pressure?
Dubai is marketing themselves as the City of the Future. This is decidedly backward-looking.
-CF
It was just announced that they were planning to throttle back the flow on the main spillway today to remove debris affecting the power plant.
I'm eager to see the damage to the main spillway, after all this time of near-full water release.
CF
I wouldn't use this map at all. The general concept is there (colder and deeper in the north) but the numbers are just wrong. Perhaps there's a Safety Factor missing.
I work in the Ohio and Pennsylvania areas, and as a reference, southern Ohio (Cincinnati area) is about 30", and Cleveland is...
The BIA, Brick Industry Association, has a number of technical publications that are useful for brick and/or masonry. You can try looking at technical note 31 first for some basic arch information.
I would like to see work done on the Ground Snow Load map in ASCE 7 to reduce the Case Study regions. Some of those zones are mountainous, and some are coastal in the great lakes region but I am willing to bet that a little research could go a long way in this regard.
I have always interpreted this table to mean, for the Ct = 1.1 entry, that there are two separate cases: 1. "Structures kept just above freezing" and 2, "Other (structures) with cold ventilated roofs....". Also, the "kept" at a certain temperature, I take to mean chilled or refrigerated to that...
