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So, the building is fine in the lateral direction. What if the wind blows in the longitudinal direction?
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In the longitudinal direction, when the force acts on the gable ends of the building, the first component to interact
with the load is the cladding materials (Sheeting). Through which the force gets transferred to the next
Structures component, Girts. Obviously, we would have designed this member to withstand the wind force, so that member
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through the frames. Usually, in the diagonal rod bracing, one set of bracing rods will be tension and the others will
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away and does not carry any force since it is slender. The other set of rods that are in tension will be active in
carrying the force. A certain amount of lateral force will be absorbed by the bracing. These forces are transferred
from the bracing system at the roof to the wall and get transferred to the ground as a shear force through anchor
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Consider a building whose length is around 64 m and we are dividing it to 8 nos. of 8m bay spacing. The minimum
number of braced bays to be provided in this case is 3. You might wonder, from where did that magical number 3
came from..? Actually as per IS 800–2007, the maximum center to center distance between braced bay is 40 m.
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