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All-heights Co-efficients for Walls Extending Between Blocks (Bug 2473)

When a building is made from multiple intersecting blocks, the program creates two walls along one of the sides of an "L", but only one wall along the side of another. The two walls are assigned to different blocks for wind load creation, but one the one wall extending between two blocks and until now was assigned to only one block for wind load generation. When this occurs you have no way of splitting the long wall up and manually assigning different blocks to the separate walls. This also occurs when you manually joined walls from separate blocks.

This could create incorrect wind loads for blocks with radically different height-to-width ratios, for example, that a wall extends from a one-storey block to high one with several stories. It has been corrected and the program internally splits the wall up and assigns the co-efficients from the correct blocks to the walls.

Refer to an explanation in the Help files, under Canadian wind load procedures, for a picture and more details.

See Also

Load Generation

Base Shear due to Manual Building Masses on North-South Lines (Bug 2518)

External Pressure Coefficients for Wall Loads (Bug 2595)

External Pressure Coefficient for Leeward Roofs (Bug 2596)

Low Rise Wind Loads Due to Note 8 for Positive CpCg Coefficients (Bug 2550)* corrected for Canadian references and terminology

MWF Wind Loads All-heights Coefficients in Log File (Bug 2501)