For C&C wind pressures generally the taller the building the higher the net pressures. Here's my question, when I have a 16 foot tall screen surrounding an area about 1/3 of roof with huge mechanical equipment behind it, is it fair to use the actual roof height for determining my C&C pressures...
Forgive my ignorance. I do structural engineering and have very little knowledge about HVAC. I often work on commercial buildings that may have large HVAC units on the roof or beside the building. When designing components and cladding the internal/external pressures of the building determine...
Here is the background. With design of glass facades for buildings you often need to strengthen the vertical members (mullions) that transfer the wind loads to the floor slabs by inserting steel cross sections that fit snugly so the steel member and the aluminum member act together, but they...
My question is related to multi-story building fenestration (curtain walls). The wind load procedures for the Components and Cladding in the ASCE 7 seem to indicate that the internal pressures are dependent on the building's overall height and that all floors will have the highest pressure...
I'm a registered PE and am working for a design build contractor in a specialized construction field. All of our work is stamped by outside engineers that we hire or by the Engineer of Record on each project but I am on board to help with sales (and lend additional credibility) and make the...
This has been driving me crazy. So I'm dealing with load rating continuous highway girders over bents that have parabolic haunches at the interior locations. The problem is, what equation do you used to describe the depth of the section?
