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Wind Pressure Analysis for Surge Tank

The document summarizes the wind pressure computation for the Motighat Surge Tank. It lists the basic wind speed, design wind speed, height of the building, wind pressure, and other factors like zone, response reduction factor, importance factor, soil site factor, type of structure, damping ratio, and period in x and z directions that are used in the wind pressure computation. The computed wind pressure is 1.40 kN/m2.

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Wind Pressure Analysis for Surge Tank

The document summarizes the wind pressure computation for the Motighat Surge Tank. It lists the basic wind speed, design wind speed, height of the building, wind pressure, and other factors like zone, response reduction factor, importance factor, soil site factor, type of structure, damping ratio, and period in x and z directions that are used in the wind pressure computation. The computed wind pressure is 1.40 kN/m2.

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Wind Pressure Computation (Motighat Surge Tank)

Basic Wind Speed, Vb = 47.00 m/s (Fig. 1)


Design Wind Speed, Vz=Vb*k1*k2*k3 = 46.77 m/s (Cl. 5.3)
k1 = 1.07 (Table-1, for Important Building)
Top Elevation 1293.55 m
Bottom Elevation 1268.35 m
Height of Building 25.20 m
k2 (Category 4, Class B and Height 25.2m) = 0.93
k3 = 1.00
pZ=0.6Vz2 = 1.31 kN/m2
Wind pressure taken as 1.40 kN/m2
For Staad

Zone (Table-2) 0.36


Response Reduction Factor (RF)(Table-7) 5
Importance Factor (I)(Table-6) 1.5
Rock and Soil site Factor (SS) 1
Type of Structure 1
Damping Ratio (Cl. 7.8.2.1) 0.05 0.0009
Period in X- Direction (PX) 0.5 seconds
Period in Z- Direction (PZ) seconds
Depth of Foundation (DT) m

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