ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES:

FORM, BEHAVIOR, AND DESIGN

ARCH 331
DR. ANNE NICHOLS
SUMMER 2014
lecture
eleven
design loads, methods,
structural codes & tracing
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Design
• factors out of the designer’s control
– loads
– occurrence
• factors within the designer’s control
– choice of material
– “cost” of failure (F.S., probability, location)
– economic design method
– analysis method

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Design Methods
• different approaches to meeting
strength/safety requirements
– allowable stress design (elastic)
– ultimate strength design
– limit state design
– plastic design
– load and resistance factor design
• assume a behavior at failure or other
threshold and include a margin of safety
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Load Types
• D = dead load
• L = live load
• Lr = live roof load
• W = wind load
• S = snow load
• E = earthquake load
• R = rainwater load or ice water load
• T = effect of material & temperature
• H = hydraulic loads from soil (F from fluids)
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Dead Loads
• fixed elements
– structure itself
– internal partitions
– hung ceilings
– all internal and external finishes
– HVAC ductwork and equipment
– permanently mounted equipment
• F = mg (GRAVITY)

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Weight of Materials
• for a volume
– W = γV where γ is weight/volume
– W = γ tA for an extruded area with
height of t

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Concentrated Loads

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Distributed Loads

• for an area
w A

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Dynamic Loads
• time, velocity, acceleration
• kinetics
– forces causing motion
W = m·g
– work
– conservation of energy

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Load Locations
• centric
• eccentric
• bending or flexural load
• torsional load
• combined loading

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Load Paths
• tributary
areas
• transfer

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Live Loads
• occupancy
• movable furniture
and equipment
• construction / roof
traffic – Lr
• minimum values
• reduction allowed
as area increases

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Wind Load
• wind speed
• gusting
• terrain
• windward, leeward,
up and down!
• drag
• rocking
• harmonic
• torsion

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Snow Load
• latitude
• solar exposure
• wind speed
• roof slope

Moscow 2006 (BBC News)

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Seismic Load
• earthquake acceleration
– F = ma
– movement of ground (3D)
– building mass responds
– static models often used,
V is static shear
– building period, T ≈ 0.1N,
determines C V ZICW
– building resistance – RW RW
– Z (zone), I (importance factor)
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Dynamic Response

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Dynamic Response
• period of vibration or
frequency
– wave
– sway/time period
• damping
– reduction in sway
• resonance
– amplification of sway

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Frequency and Period
• natural period of vibration

– avoid resonance
– hard to predict seismic period
– affected by soil
– short period
• high stiffness
– long period “To ring the bell, the sexton must pull
• low stiffness on the downswing of the bell in time
with the natural frequency of the bell.”
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Water Load
• rainwater – clogged drains
• ponding
• ice formation

mrfussycontracting.com

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Thermal Load
• stress due to strain
• restrained expansion or contraction
• temperature gradients
• composite construction

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Hydraulic Loads
• pressure by water in soil, H
• fluid pressure, F
– normal to surface
• flood

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Building Codes
• documentation
– laws that deal with planning, design,
construction, and use of buildings
– regulate building construction for
• fire, structural and health safety
– cover all aspect of building design
– references standards
• acceptable minimum criteria
• material & structural codes

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Building Codes
• occupancy
• construction types
• structural chapters
– loads, tests, foundations
• structural materials, assemblies
– roofs
– concrete
– masonry
– steel

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Prescribed Loads
• ASCE-7
– live load (not roof) reductions allowed
• International Building Code
– occupancy
– wind: pressure to static
load
– seismic: shear load
function of mass and
response to acceleration
– fire resistance
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Structural Codes
• prescribe loads and combinations
• prescribe design method
• prescribe stress and deflection limits
• backed by the profession
• may require design to meet
performance standards
• related to material or function

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Structural Codes
• Design Codes
– Wood
• NDS
– Steel
• AISC
– Concrete
• ACI
• AASHTO
– Masonry
• MSJC
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Design Methods
• probability of loads and resistance
• material variability
• overload, fracture, fatigue, failure
• allowable stress design
P f capacity
f actual   f allowed 
A F .S .
• limit state design
– design loads & capacities
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Allowable Stress Design
• historical method
• a.k.a.
working stress,
strength design
• stresses stay in
ELASTIC range

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 ASCE-7
ASD Load Combinations (2010)
• D
• D+L
• D + 0.75(Lr or S or R)
• D + 0.75L + 0.75(Lr or S or R)
• D + (0.6W or 0.7E)
– D + 0.75L + 0.75(0.6W) + 0.75(Lr or S or R)
– D + 0.75L + 0.75(0.7E) + 0.75S
• 0.6D + 0.6W
• 0.6D + 0.7E
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Limit State Design
• a.k.a. strength design
• stresses go to limit (strain outside
elastic range)
• loads may be factored
• resistance or capacity reduced by a
factor
• based on material behavior
• “state of the art”
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Limit State Design
• load and resistance factor design (LRFD)
– loads:
• not constant,
• possibly more influential on failure
• happen more or less often
– UNCERTAINTY
 D RD   L RL   Rn
 - Resistance factor
 - Load factor for (D)ead & (L)ive load

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 ASCE-7
LRFD Load Combinations (2010)
• 1.4D
• 1.2D + 1.6L + 0.5(Lr or S or R)
• 1.2D + 1.6(Lr or S or R) + (L or 0.5W)
• 1.2D + 1.0W + L + 0.5(Lr or S or R)
• 1.2D + 1.0E + L + 0.2S
• 0.9D + 1.0W
• 0.9D + 1.0E
• F has same factor as D in 1-5 and 7
• H adds with 1.6 and resists with 0.9 (permanent)
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Deflection Limits
• based on service condition, severity
Use LL only DL+LL
Roof beams:
Industrial L/180 L/120
Commercial
plaster ceiling L/240 L/180
no plaster L/360 L/240
Floor beams:
Ordinary Usage L/360 L/240
Roof or floor (damageable elements) L/480
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Load Conditions
• loads, patterns & combinations
– usually uniformly distributed gravity loads
– worst case for largest moments...
– wind direction can increase moments

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Structural Loads
• gravity acts on mass (F=m*g)
• force of mass
– acts at a point
• ie. joist on beam
– acts along a “line”
• ie. floor on a beam
– acts over an area
• ie. people, books,
snow on roof or floor

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Equivalent Force Systems
• replace forces by resultant
• place resultant where M = 0
• using calculus and area centroids
L
W   wdx   dA  A loading
0 loading

y
w(x)

x dx
x
x el
dx L
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Area Centroids
• Table 7.1 – pg. 242

h b
3
right triangle only
b

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Equivalent Load Areas
• area is width x “height” of load
• w is load per unit length
• W is total load

w x W 2w
w x W w 
2 2 w w
0
x x x
W W
W/2 W/2

x/2 x/2 2x/3 x/3 x/2 x/6 x/3

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Distributed Area Loads
• w is also load per unit area
w

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Load Tracing
• how loads are
transferred
– usually starts at top
– distributed by
supports as actions
– distributed by
tributary areas

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Load Tracing
• areas see distributed
area load
• beams or trusses
see distributed line
loads
• “collectors” see
forces
– columns
– supports
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Load Tracing

tributary area

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 Load Tracing
• tributary load
– think of water flow
– “concentrates” load of
area into center

 load 
w=  × ( tributary width )
 area  width

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Load Tracing
Patcenter
Rogers 1986

www.columbia.edu

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Load Tracing
Alamillo Bridge
Calatrava 1992

http://en.structurae.de

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Load Paths
• floors and framing

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Load Paths
• wall systems

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Load Paths
• openings & pilasters

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Load Paths
• foundations

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Load Paths
• deep foundations

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Spans
• direction
• depth

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Levels
• determine span at top level
• find half way to next element
• *include self weight
• look for “collectors”
• repeat

• one:

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Levels
• two:

• three:

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Irregular Configurations
• tracing still ½ each side

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Slabs
• edge support

• linear and uniform distribution

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Girders and Transfer
• openings
– no load & no half way
• girder actions at beam supports

+ +

+ +

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Sloped Beams
• stairs & roofs
• projected live load
• dead load over length 

• perpendicular load to beam:

w  w  cos 
• equivalent distributed load:
w
wadj . 
cos 
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Framing Diagrams
• beam lines and “dots” Spanning direction of decking or reinforcement

• breaks & ends

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Retaining Walls
• purpose
– retain soil or other material
• basic parts
– wall & base
– additional parts
• counterfort
• buttress
• key

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Retaining Wall Types
• “gravity” wall
– usually unreinforced
– economical & simple

• cantilever retaining wall

– common

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Retaining Wall Loads
• gravity
W=V
• fluid pressure
p = ’  h N

P = ½ p h at h/3
• friction
F=N
• soil bearing pressure, q

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Retaining Wall Equilibrium
• sliding - overcome friction?
• overturning at toe (o) - overcome mass?

M resist
SF   1.5  2
W M overturning
P
Fhorizontal  resist
o
Fresist SF   1.25  2
R F sliding

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Pressure Distribution
• want resultant of load from pressure inside
the middle third of base (kern)
• triangular stress block with pmax
• x = 1/3 x width of stress
• equivalent force location:
pmax 3x x
W x   x a
2 3
2W 2W when a is
pmax   fully stressed
3x a
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Wind Pressure
• distributed load
• “collected” into V
• lateral loads V

must be
resisted

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Bracing Configurations

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