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wind load of ridge skylight or hip skylight at a flat roof?
hi everyone,
how to calculate positive and negative wind loads of a ridge skylight or hip skylight located at a flat roof of a building?
any comment appreciated.
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this is wholly dependant on your code. what are you using?
regards,
ys
b.eng (carleton)
working in new zealand, thinking of my snow covered home...
if this is new construction, contact the supplier. they will give you some preliminary design loads (that i usually increase some percentage) to work with.
use the components and cladding portion of the wind provisions of the bldg code for a roof component.
reply all above:
to youngstrucutal: the load code is asce 7.
to sperlingpe: why do you think we need contact the supplier? we are structural engineers. i think we need to find it out by ourselves using wind speed and building dimesions, etc.
to stevegregory: what's code you refer? where are roof components? i can't find any roof component in components and cladding, asce 7.
thanks for you guys' inputs.
i am refering to asce 7-02. section 6.5.12.4 refers to components and cladding. see figures 6-11 through 6-17 for the gcp pressure coefficients for a variety of roof components. other editions of asce 7 have similar figures.

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