The Wind Load Shear Wall Calculator is a shear wall design calculator for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It is a tool for engineers, architects, and builders, as well as students to design shear walls to ...

The current extreme wind load provisions in ASCE 7 are based on ultimate strength design. The use of any design wind speed MRI in the current provisions of ASCE 7 inherently assumes a load factor of 1 ...

The National Roofing Contractors Association recently made significant updates to its Roof Wind Designer. The online wind-load calculator is intended to offer roofing professionals an easy way to ...

James R. Harris, founder of J.R. Harris & Co., Denver, and chair of the ASCE/SEI 7-10 main committee, “strongly disagrees” with several of Simiu's concerns, including the wind-speed maps.

An enhanced particle swarm optimization method for wind resistance in high-rise buildings is introduced, focusing on weight reduction and safety constraints.

World Trade Towers Design Exceeded Wind Load Codes Date: October 4, 2004 Source: National Institute Of Standards And Technology Summary: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ...

According to a new white paper, “Understanding IBC Wind Load Requirements for Generating Systems,” written by Allan Bliemeister, senior staff engineer for Kohler Power Systems, building owners and ...

The 2012 edition bases its design loadings on SEI/ASCE 37-02, but the wind loadings are now based on ASCE 7-10, which uses three wind speed maps based on strength design in conjunction with a wind ...

The study found that the original design wind load estimates all exceed those established by the New York City building code prior to 1968 (when the WTC towers were designed) ...