Design of Portal
Frame Buildings
Third Edition
S.T. Woolcock
Director, Bonacci Winward
Consulting Engineers
S. Kitipornchai
Professor of Civil Engineering
The University of Queensland
M.A. Bradford
Professor of Civil Engineering
The University of New South Wales
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‘Australian Institute of Steel Construction
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DESIGN OF PORTAL FRAME BUILDINGS
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person Contents
PREFACE
NOTATION
INTRODUCTION
11 Portal Framed Buildings
1.2 Limit State Design
1.2.1 Background
1.2.2 Design for the Strength Limit State
1.2.3 Design for the Serviceability Limit State
1.3 Design Example
1.4 References
Loaps
2.1 Background
2.2 Dead Loads
23 Live Loads
2.4 Wind Loads
24.1 General
242 Regional Wind Speeds
24.3 Wind Directions
244 Terrain Category
2.4.5 Basic Wind Speeds
2.46 Calculation of Pressures
2.47 External Pressures
2.48 Internal Pressures
2.49 Area Reduction Factor
2.4.10 Local Pressure Factors
2.5 Load Combinations
2.5.1 Strength Limit State
252 Serviceability Limit State
2.6 Design Example - Loads
2.6.1 Dead Loads
Live Loads
Wind Loads
2.63.1 Basic Wind Data
2.63.2 External Wind Pressures
2.6.3.3 Internal Wind Pressures
2.63.4 Peak Local Pressures
2.6.4 Load Cases for Portal Frames
2.6.5 Load Combinations
2.7 References
PuRLINS & Girts
3.1. General
3.2 Roof and Wall Sheeting
3.3 Frame Spacing,
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