Wind Loads for High-Solidity Open Frame Structures

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Wind Loads for High-Solidity open Frame StructuresSamuel D. Amoroso1 and Marc L. Levitan2Principal Engineer, Engensus, Baton Rouge, Professor, LSU Hurricane Center, Baton Rouge, Frame Structures , such as those commonly found in industrial process facilities, are oftendenselyoccupied with processrelated equipment. This paper presents an alternative method forestimating wind Loads for High-Solidity open Frame Structures that differs from currentapproaches, which accumulatewind load contributions from various individual methodconsiders the structure as a porous block of arbitrary plan dimension that is subjectto wind from any direction.

Wind Loads for High-Solidity Open Frame Structures Samuel D. Amoroso1 and Marc L. Levitan2 Principal Engineer, Engensus, Baton Rouge, USA, sam.amoroso@engensus.com Associate Professor, LSU Hurricane Center, Baton Rouge, USA, levitan@hurricane.lsu.edu

  Open, High, Structure, Frame, High solidity open frame structures, Solidity