In our earlier posts we determined the horizontal and vertical components of wind load on a `shop’ (here). The horizontal force was/is 500 lb, as acting on an 8-ft wide `swath’ of shop, which is framed with wood trusses at …
Minimum Design Wind Load – ASCE 7-22 Section 28.3.6 (Envelope Procedure) Read more »
Continuing from Part 1 … Step 6: Determine the external pressure coefficients, GCpf … Section 28.3.2. For Case 1 we get … roof slope tan-1 4/12 = 18.4° … interpolating between 5° and 20° … interp GCpf per slope, …
Wind Load on a Shop Using ASCE 7-22 (Envelope Procedure) – Part 2 (Horizontal Force) Read more »
Pole barn versus post frame … how to keep the structure from flopping over? Consider a barn, or perhaps a shop, made using timber and `posts’. There are two main ways to keep it from flopping over. One way is …
`a constantly debated topic’ (pole barn versus post frame) Read more »