The Wind Load Shear Wall Calculator is a shear wall design calculator for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It is a tool for engineers, architects, and builders, as well as students to design shear walls to ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported on Sept. 17 that it has done additional analysis of the wind "loads" that the World Trade Center (WTC) towers were originally ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2014), pp. 359-376 (18 pages) ABSTRACT Despite having been used for a long time, tubular lattice towers with three or four legs have not been systematically analysed ...

According to a new white paper, “Understanding IBC Wind Load Requirements for Generating Systems,” written by Allan Bliemeister, senior staff engineer for Kohler Power Systems, building owners and ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers has decided that emergency changes to wind-load provisions in ASCE's 2010 building design standard are not needed. ASCE recently reviewed the provisions ...