The Designer's Guide to Wind Loading of Building Structures: Static Structures Pt. 2
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-0-408-00871-6 (ISBN)
Description
This guide has been developed to assist architects, building control officers and other professionals considering a fire safety engineering alternative to the precise requirements set out in the Approved Document to Part B of the Building Regulation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
130 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-408-00871-6 (9780408008716)
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Content
About Part 2 - static structures; assessment methods for static structures; measurement of loading data for static structures; review of codes of practice and other data sources; a fully probabilistic approach to design; line-like, lattice and plate-like structures; bluff building structures; internal pressure; special considerations; design loading coefficient data. Appendices: bibliography of modelling accuracy comparisons for static structures; guidelines for ad-hoc model-scale tests; a model code of practice for wind loads; mean overall loading coefficients for cuboidal buildings; a semi-empirical model for pressures on flat roofs.