LOADS1
LOADS1
LOADS1
Dead Load
The self weight of a structure with all its building components is called the dead load.This load cannot be determined unless all member sizes are known. These sizes in turn depend on critical combinations of various loads.
Live Loads
All possible movable and moving loads acting on floors,roofs and bridges are called live loads.These load intensities depend upon the following
Live Loads
The type of occupancy in residential,industrial and mercantile building. The type of vehicles,such as trucks,tractors,buses,trains,tankers,etc. on bridges,and The type of materials stored in silos,bunkers,tanks,etc.
Live Loads
Based on a number of surveys,load intensities for different class of buildings and bridges have been recommended for uniform adoption of loads by designers. Relevent I.S.code to be referred. I.S.875,IRC6 and bridge rules of Ministry of Railways.
Impact Loads
Moving Loads Cause Impact,vibration,kinetic Action of Acceleration and Retardation and Shock in Structures,resulting in Additional Stresses.Many Factors Contribute to This Complex Phenomena. For Example,the Speed,condition of Vehicle,its Relative Mass,and Irregularities in Floors,tracks and Wheels Influence the behaviour of the Structure.
Impact Loads
These effects are termed as impact loads. They are standardised for cranes,on girders in factories and for railway loadings on bridges. The impact factors,by which live loads are to be multiplied to obtain impact loads are given in respective I.S.codes.
Wind Loads
The evaluation of wind effects on structures is a complex problem. The kinetic energy of wind is converted to potential energy when an obstacle is placed in its path. The wind pressure intensity at any height of a structure depends upon the velocity and the density of air, shape and the height of the structure ,proximity of other obstructing structures ,topography of the surrounding ground surface and the angle of wind attack.
Wind Loads
The velocity of air is not steady but varies due to turbulence produced by the friction of the irregular ground surface and other obstructing structures. From the wind data collected from meteorological observations, the maximum wind speed, called basic wind speeds,Vb over a short interval of three seconds,likely to occur over a period of 50 years or so,are predicted for different zones of a country.
Wind Loads
These speeds are generally applicable to a height of 10 m above the mean ground level. The wind effect on structures is explained as per Indian code,I.S.875.
k1 factor(Risk Coefficient)
In the design of structures,a basic wind speed having a mean return period of 50 years is considered.If the suggested life of a structure is more than 50 years ( e.g. nuclear power reactors,satellite communication tower,dam etc.) k1 factor is found by,
K1=XN,P/X50,0.63=[A-B{log(-1/Nlog(1-PN))}]/{A+4B}
k1 factor(Risk Coefficient)
Where N= mean probable design life of structure in years,PN= risk level in N years,nominal value=o.63,XN,P=extreme wind speed for given values of N and PN, and X50,0.63=extreme wind speed for N=50 years and PN= 0.63. A,B are coefficients for different wind speeds. The values of k1 for the probable period of 5,25,50 and 100 years and basic wind speed of 33,39,44,47,50 and 55 m/s are tabulated in Table( )
Values of A and B
Zone 33 m/s 39 m/s 44 m/s 47 m/s 50 m/s 55 m/s A 83.2 84.0 88.0 88.0 88.8 90.8 B 9.2 14.0 18.0 20.5 22.8 27.3
K1factor for basic wind speed (m/s) 33 39 44 47 50 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
55 1.0
All General buildings and Structures Temporary sheds and structures under construction Buildings and structures cause low degree of hazard to life and property in event of failure Important buildings and structures,such as hospitals,communication buildings,power plants,etc.
50
0.82
0.76
0.73
0.71
0.70
0.67
25
0.94
0.92
0.91
0.9
0.9
0.89
100
1.05
1.06
1.07
1.07
1.08
1.08
k2 factor
(i) Terrain : the surface roughness depends on the height of obstructions.The terrain on which a specific structure stands is grouped under four categories. Category 1 : The height of obstruction is less than 1.5 m in this category.This includes open sea coast and flat freeless plains.
k2 factor
Category 2 : Open terrain with scattered obstructions whose height is between 1.5 m to 10 m. This includes open park land,airfields and sparsely builtup outskirts of towns and subsurbs. Category 3: Terrain with closely spaced obstructions with a height of 10 m. This category includes wooded areas,towns and industrial areas. Category 4:Terrain with numerous large high closely spaced obstructions of height 25 m. This category includes large city centres.
k2 factor
(ii)Size of Structures: Structures are classified into three different classes, A ,B and C depending upon their size. Class A : Structures having maximum dimension less than 20 m. Class B : Structures having maximum dimension between 20 m and 50 m. Class C : Structures having maximum dimension greater than 50 m.
k2 factor
Table ( ) gives the multiplying factor k2 by which the basic wind speeds need to be multiplied to obtain wind speed at different heights in each category of terrain for a different class of structures.
k2 factor
Height Terrain category 1
Class
Terrain category 2
Class
Terrain category 3
Class
Terrain category 4
Class
m
(1)
10 15 20 30 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
A B C
(11) (12) (13)
0.8 0.80 0.80 0.97 1.10 1.20 1.24 1.27 1.28 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 0.76 0.76 0.76 0.93 1.05 1.15 1.20 1.22 1.24 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 0.67 0.67 0.67 0.83 0.95 1.05 1.10 1.13 1.16 1.17 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22
k3 factor
The basic wind speed is the speed measured or predicted at the general level of the site above sea level, but the effect of local topographical features such as hills,valleys,cliffs,escarpments or ridges is accounted for by multiplying the basic wind speed by k3.
k3 factor
This value is unity for level ground.For an upwind slope () more than 30 it is computed as explained in I.S.875(Part III). It lies in the range 1.0 to 1.36. For a hill and ridge it is calculated as follows. The topography factor k3 is given by K3=1 + Cs , where C has the following values:
Value of C
Slope
30 < < 170 > 170 0.36
C
1.2(Z/L)
Value of C
S = factor obtained from fig.( ) of I.S.Code., = upwind slope in the wind direction. Z=height of crest or hill and L=projected length of upwind zone from average ground level to crest in wind direction In Fig.( ),H is the height of the crest above ground level ,X is the distance from the summit to the effective length,Le , and Le is the effective horizontal length of the hill,depending on the slope .
Lattice Towers
The overall force coefficients for lattice towers of a square or equilateral triangle section with flat sided members,for wind blowing against any face,are given in table ( ) of I.S.Code depending upon the magnitude of the solidity ratio . is equal to the effective area (projected area) of a frame normal to the wind direction, divided by the area enclosed by the boundary of the frame normal to the wind direction. For square lattice towers with flat sided members,the maximum load which occurs when the wind blows into a corner should be taken as 1.2 times the wind blowing against any face. For rounded members the effective area may be taken as 70% of the actual projected area.