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This useful guide walks practicing professionals through the complicated process of assessing wind loads on a variety of buildings and other structures as set forth in Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, Standard ASCE/SEI 7-02. This revised guide addresses new developments in the wind load provisions of ASCE 7-02, including analytical procedures, simplified procedures, terrain exposures, and internal pressures. In order to clearly identify the scope and limitations of the Standard, Guide to the Use of Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-02 provides a brief review of the background material that forms the basis for the Standard's provisions. It includes a discussion of the general format of an analytical procedure used to determine wind loads and the various wind load parameters involved in this determination, such as velocity pressure, gust response factor, and pressure coefficients. Multiple examples using this analytical procedure to determine wind load are also included and worked out in detail. This book will assist structural engineers who design buildings and structures following the wind load provisions.

Wind-pressure. --- Buildings --- Gust loads. --- Structural engineering. --- Wind loads --- Load factors --- Professional societies --- Building design --- Wind pressure --- Load and resistance factor design --- Wind forces --- Dynamic pressure --- Standards --- Aerodynamics.

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Wind Loads: Guide to the Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-16 provides a comprehensive overview of the wind load provisions in Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-16. In this helpful guide, authors Coulbourne and Stafford focus on the provisions that affect the planning, design, and construction of buildings for residential and commercial purposes. Whereas the 2016 revision of ASCE 7 has retained the previously reorganized wind load provisions, the important changes in the ASCE 7-16 wind load provisions are Modified wind speed maps for the country west of the hurricane-prone region; A fourth wind speed map for Risk Category IV structures; Revised methodology to determine exposure category; Addition of a ground elevation factor to the velocity pressure equation; New provisions for roof top solar arrays, canopies, and bins, tanks, and silos; and Revised pressure coefficients for components and cladding for sloped roofs. Wind Loads provides users with tools and insight to apply ASCE 7-16 in everyday practice. This updated guide introduces readers to the relevant sections of the standard and provides an extensive overview of the design procedures and the revised wind speed maps.This guide includes 14 chapters with 10 worked examples of real-life design problems applying the appropriate use of analytical and simplified procedures for calculating wind loads for a variety of common structure types, as well as answers to more than 30 frequently asked questions, grouped by topic. This book is an essential reference for practicing structural engineers, as it offers the most authoritative and in-depth interpretation of the wind loads section of Standard ASCE/SEI 7-16.William L. Coulbourne, P.E., is a structural engineering consultant located in Annapolis, Maryland. He is a member of the ASCE 7 Wind Load Task Committee, and he coauthored the wind loads guide to ASCE/SEI 7-05 and ASCE/SEI 7-10.T. Eric Stafford, P.E. is a structural engineering consultant located in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a member of the ASCE 7 Wind Load Task Committee, and he has coauthored Significant Changes to the Minimum Design Load Provisions of ASCE 7-16 and authored Significant Changes to the Wind Load Provisions of ASCE 7-10: An Illustrated Guide.

Wind-pressure. --- Wind resistant design. --- Buildings --- Gust loads. --- Wind loads --- Load factors --- Professional societies --- Wind speed --- Consulting services --- Building design --- Wind forces --- Wind pressure --- United States --- Maryland --- Alabama --- Standards --- Aerodynamics.