Wind Load Calculator
Wind Load: a planned Super Calculator tool. Covers basic wind speed or location. Stub page: the tool, its formula and a worked example are not published yet.
Wind Load Calculator is a planned calculator in the engineering section of Super Calculator, covering structural engineering.
What this calculator will compute
Inputs: basic wind speed or location, exposure or terrain category, building height and dimensions, roof geometry, risk category, enclosure classification and code.
Outputs: velocity pressure, design pressures by surface, uplift, total base shear and component and cladding pressures.
Formula, recorded as scope and not yet verified against a primary source: ASCE 7 gives velocity pressure qz = 0.00256 Kz Kzt Kd Ke V^2 in imperial units, with design pressure p = q G Cp minus internal pressure. Eurocode 1 Part 1-4 uses qp(z) = ce(z) qb with qb = 0.5 rho vb^2, and national annexes set the basic wind map.
Status
This page is a stub. The calculator is not built, no figure on this page has been verified against the authority that sets it, and nothing here should be used to make a decision. The page exists so that the site structure is complete and so that articles can link this concept on first mention.
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