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masonry wind loads
i know i have seen this question on this forum before but i can't seem to find it at this time.
i have a masonry wall that is 20' high x 30' long (no openings), when sizing the wall reinforcing for wind loads (i am using the components and cladding requirements) do you use the full area of the wall (600 ft^2) or do you use the tributary area to each bar (say @40 in oc or 66ft^2). i have had some pretty lively discussions with other engineers in the office and was wondering what other people think.

i would normally treat it as a wall with local additional reinforcing at corner areas to reflect higher wind loadings at those locations.
dik
i would use the effective wind area definition from asce7, that is the effective width need not be less than one-third of the span. in your case a = 20 x 20/3 = 133 sq. ft.
spats is correct.
daveatkins
i would do the same as dik. that is most likely because we are both using a different code than asce7. i don't even know what you mean by effective width, nor why this topic would create much in the way of lively discussion amongst engineers.
ba
i am in line with dik & ba, though i am in the us. treat the wall as a whole, there is nothing to tribute to.
baretired,
the question was about determining area for calculating components & cladding wind loads. dik did not address that at all, so i don't know what you're agreeing with.
the codes i work with in the us all reference back to asce7. that was the basis for my suggestion. i would think other codes have similar provisions for determining area for c&c wind loads.
as far as lively discussions... i can definitely see that. the same thing goes for designing tilt-up walls. is the area the area of the entire panel, or is it the span times the spacing of the reinforcement?
dik did not answer the question. in order to determine wind loads at typical areas or at corners, you must know the effective wind area. per asce 7, this is height squared divided by three.
daveatkins
if you are designing a freestanding wall or sign using asce 7-05 i suggest that you get the wind loads from section 6.5.14, formula 6-27.
it send you to fig. 6-20 to find cf
sorry, i misunderstood the question. i thought the question was based on the tributary area of the wall vs. the tributary area provided by a single bar @ 40" o/c and my reply was correct based on that understanding.
there was no reference to asce7.
dik

spats,
in the national building code of canada, pressure coefficients are given for walls and roofs of varying slopes. a wall would be designed for a pressure derived from the algebraic sum of the internal and external pressure. these in turn would be determined in accordance with the code, taking into account q, the reference velocity pressure which is listed for many locations in canada, ce the exposure factor, cg the gust factor and cp the external pressure coefficient.
these various factors are all tabulated in the structural commentaries to the nbc. the area affected would be the entire wall area, although factors in the corner regions are greater than the central area. i believe that is why dik indicated he would design the wall for a uniform pressure with increased pressure in the corner regions.
there is no mention in our code of "effective area" and in fact, i still do not understand what you mean by the term. daveatkins says it is height squared divided by three which does not help in my understanding. please elucidate.
ba

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