Fig 6-9, ASCE 7-02
Fig 6-9, ASCE 7-02
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I have a small one-story PEMB with an almost flat roof that I am analyzing for column reactions. For the above figure, Load cases 1 and 3 apply. For load case 3, is it necessary to add 75% of the roof pressure from the X direction to 75% of the roof pressure from the Y direction? It seems to me that this would be double dipping because the projected area of the roof does not change.
This would be contrast to the walls, where if you had wind acting concurently in the X and Y directions your projected area does increase.
This would be contrast to the walls, where if you had wind acting concurently in the X and Y directions your projected area does increase.
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RE: Fig 6-9, ASCE 7-02
RE: Fig 6-9, ASCE 7-02
The 0.75 case is (I believe)for wind at 45 degrees to the walls(each component is 1/sqrt(2) which is 0.71 - rounded up to 0.75.
If you have this 45 degree wind then you have a 45 degree component acting on the eaves of both walls. Do your force vectors and see what you get.
By the way, they never take this into diagonal wind into account in Australia, and buildings dont seem to fall down because of it (they have winds up to 140mph too).
RE: Fig 6-9, ASCE 7-02
RE: Fig 6-9, ASCE 7-02
For example, if the specified wind load is 20psf, that is 15 psf in the X direction and 15 psf in the Y direction, but I wouldn't add those to get 30 psf to design the roof by. Along the diagonal, the load would be sqrt(15^2+15^2)=21.21 psf required for design.
RE: Fig 6-9, ASCE 7-02
Haynewp, you stated with great clarity what I was trying to get at, but not very clearly. For a flat or nearly flat roof, the resultant uplift pressure shouldn't change with changes in the direction of the wind. Let's say that when the wind blows in the X or Y direction the uplift pressure on the roof is 20 psf. If the wind blows on a 45 degree diagonal you have 0.707*20=14.14 psf components in the X and Y directions. Combining them as vectors, you have sqrt(14.14^2 + 14.14^2)=20 psf. When I was looking at the figure in ASCE 7 earlier, I interpreted it to mean that the components had to be added algebraically on the roof, and that didn't make sense to me.