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By WoodEngineering Posted on February 28, 2023 Posted in wind loads Tagged with 3, 3-sec, 33, 7, ASCE, ASD, basic, boundary, building, code, design, fastest, feet, gust, hazard, interval, layer, mile, nominal, recurrence, risk, safety, second, speed, structure, ULT, V, velocity, wind

V (pronounced `Veeee’, in wood engineering, in any particular usage, generally stands for one of two things. As pertaining to loads and forces in (inside of) wood structural members themselves, V stands for `Shear’, in particular `horizontal shear’, and specifically …

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The 50-Year Wind

By WoodEngineering Posted on February 28, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with 50, barn, building, chance, county, design, force, gust, hazard, idaho, latah, moscow, mph, MRI, probability, Return Interval, safety, shop, speed, structure, velocity, wind, year

Okay, let’s say I’m gonna build a `shop’ near, say, Moscow (Latah County), Idaho, Zip 83843. The big worries there are snow, in winter, and wind, any time of year. For wind, let’s go to https://hazards.atcouncil.org, … `Wind’, and then …

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The 50-Year Wind