WINDLOAD COMPUTATION

1. Determining risk category of building or other structure.

Table 103 -1 Occupancy Category

OCCUPANCY CATEGORY OCCUPANCY OR FUNCTION OF STRUCTURE

I. ESSENTIAL Occupancies having surgery and emergency

FACILITIES treatment areas,
Fire and police stations,
Garages and shelters for emergency vehicles and
emergency aircraft,
Structures and shelters in emergency
preparedness centers,
A variation control towers,
Structures and equipment in communication
centers and other facilities required for
emergency response,
Facilities for standby power-generating
equipment for Category I structures,
Tanks or other structures containing housing or
supporting water or other fire-suppression
material or equipment required for the
protection of Category I, II, or III, IV and V
structures
Public school building,
Hospitals,
Designated evacuation centers and
Power and Communication transmission line
Occupancies and structures housing or
II. HAZARDOUS supporting toxic or explosive chemicals or
FACILITIES substances,
Non-building structures storing, supporting or
containing quantities of toxic or explosive
substances
III. SPECIAL Building with an assembly room with an
OCCUPANCY occupant of 1,000 or more,
STRUCTURES Educational buildings such as museums,
libraries, auditorium with a capacity of 300 or
more occupants,
Building used for college or adult education with
a capacity of 500 or more occupants.
Institutional buildings with 50 or more
incapacitated patients, but not included in
 Category I,
Mental hospitals, sanitariums, jails, prisons and
other buildings where personal liberties of
inmates are similarly restrained,
Churches, Mosques, and other Religion Facilities,
All structures with an occupancy of 5,000 or
more persons,
Structures and equipment in power-generating
stations and other public utility facilities and
included in Category I, or Category II, and
required for continued operation
III. STANDARD All structures housing occupancies or having
OCCUPANCY functions not listed in Category I, II, or III and
STRUCTURES Category V.
IV. MISCELLANEOU Private garages, carports, sheds and fences over
S STRUCTURES 1.5 m. high.

Occupancy Category of the building = IV

2. Determine the basic wind speed, V, for the applicable category.
 Figure 207A.5-1A Basic Wind Speed for Occupancy Category IV and V
The location of the building is located at Surigao City (Caraga
Region). As the occupancy category of the structure is categorized as IV, and
base on the map above (figure 207A.5-1A) the basic wind speed is;

V = 290km/h
3. Determine wind load parameters:

a. Wind directionality factor, Kd ;

The type of the structure is categorize as a Main Wind Resisting Structure, and
base on the table above its wind directionality factor is:

Kd = 0.85
b-1. Exposure category:
 IN THIS SITE

Base on the site location above;

d1 > 790 m
d2 180 m

Therefore the structure is categorize to exposure D.

 THIS SITE

b-2. Determine the topographic effects:

Since the site is located in a flat surface.The conditions and

locations f the structure does not meet all the conditions specified in Section
207A.8.1 then;

Kzt = 1.0

c. Determine the gust effect factor

Frequency determination

Checking the limitations of approximate Natural Frequency

1. hm = 4.18 m < 90 m

Frame along column B:

= 12 m

Therefore, hm< 4Leff

Checking the approximate frequency for concrete moment - resisting frame;
 na = 43.5/h0.9
na = 43.5/(3.3)0.9 = 14.85 Hz > 1Hz
Therefore, the building is rigid:

Use; G = 0.85
d. Determine the enclosure classification
Accordingly, the code requires that a determination be made of the
amount of openings in the envelope to assess enclosure classification (enclosed,
partially, enclosed, or opening). “Openings” are specially defined in the version of
the code as “apertures or holes in the building envelope which allow air to flow
through the building envelope and which are designed as “open” during winds”.
(NSCP 2015, Section 207A.10)
If a building by definition complies with both the “open” and
“partially enclosed” definitions, it shall be classified as an “open” building. A
building that does not comply with either the “open” or “partially enclosed”
definitions shall be classified as an “enclosed” building. (NSCP 2015,
207A.10.4)
- Checking for enclosure classification
For building partially enclosed condition;
1. Ao > 1.10Aoi
Ao = 8.807 m2
Aoi = 28.157 m2
Since, 8.807 m2 < 1.10(28.157 m2)
Therefore, the building is classified as “enclosed building
As from this table for enclosed buildings;
GCpi = ±0.18

4. Determine the velocity pressure exposure coefficient, Kz , Kh.

Kz = Kh = 1.03

Z(m) EXPOSURE (D)

4.18 1.03
3.30 1.03
0 1.03

5. Determine the
velocity pressure
qz or qh.
We get;

qz = 3.48 kPa

qh = 3.48 kPa

6. Determine the external pressure coefficient, Cp.

 h = 4.18 m L/B = 1.17 m
B = 12 m h/L = 0.30
L = 14 m Ѳ = 13°

External Pressure Coefficient along Frame B

FACES Coefficient (
WINDWARD 0.8
LEEWARD -0.3
SIDEWARD -0.7
WINDWARD LEEWARD
ROOF
-0.5

7. Calculate wind pressure (p) along frame A;

To determine the pressure,

P = qh(GCp-GCpi)

ALONG FRAME B
 Windward Wall Leeward Wall Side Wall
P (kPa) P (kPa) P (kPa)
Kh With With With With With With
Z(m) qh(kPa)
(kPa) +GCpi -GCpi +GCpi -GCpi +GCpi -GCpi
-2.70 -1.45
4.18 1.03 3.48
-1.16 0.09
-2.11 -0.85 - -

3.30 1.03 3.48 1.74 3.00 -1.51 -0.26 -2.70 -1.45

0 1.03 3.48 1.74 3.00 -1.51 -0.26 -2.70 -1.45

Net along Wind Pressure = Windward wall – Leeward Wall

Net along Wind Load = Net along Wind Pressure * Tributary area
Base Bending Moment = Net Along Wind Load * Z

Net along wind Net along wind loads Base bending moment
pressures pz (kPa) Tributary Fz (kN) contribution My,z (kNm)
Area (sqm)
with +Gcpi with -Gcpi with +Gcpi with -Gcpi with +Gcpi with -Gcpi
3.26 3.26 1.65 5.37 5.37 17.73 17.73

3.26 3.26 1.65 5.37 5.37

Vx (kN) 10.75 10.75

= 17.73 17.73
My (kNm) =