Calculating Wind Loads

[zach21]

I am working on calculating wind loads coming on the superstructure of a concrete deck with steel stringers. I am following AASHTO pretty closely but was wondering if there are any examples for how to calculate the wind loads (WS, WL and Vertical Wind Pressure)?

 

[slickdeals]

Some examples can be found here

http://www.aisc.org/contentNSBA.aspx?id=20244

 

[gobsmacked]

see pages 38 to 56 of EN 1991-1-3:2003 (E) for European information on snow. It's not just a map but accompanying tables etc. This is obviously copywrited and it costs lots amounts of money to get it. A middle-eastern gentleman designing a building somewhere in the gulf told me there was no wind and no snow where he was working. Does that help?

For a simplified snow roof load map for Scotland dated 2003, see

http://products.ihs.com/CIS/Doc.aspx?AuthCode=&DocNum=276933

but you will have to pay.....
Where I live, someone tied to bring together all the commercial borehole logs for the area so that money could be saved but not repeating unnecessary investigations, but it's not so simple and it foundered on commercial and practical interpretive grounds.

 

[gobsmacked]

see pages 38 to 56 of EN 1991-1-3:2003 (E) for European information on snow. It's not just a map but accompanying tables etc. This is obviously copywrited and it costs lots amounts of money to get it. A middle-eastern gentleman designing a building somewhere in the gulf told me there was no wind and no snow where he was working. Does that help?

For a simplified snow roof load map for Scotland dated 2003, see

http://products.ihs.com/CIS/Doc.aspx?AuthCode=&DocNum=276933

but you will have to pay.....
Where I live, someone tried to bring together all the commercial borehole logs for the area so that money could be saved but not repeating unnecessary investigations, but it's not so simple and it foundered on commercial and practical interpretive grounds.