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REF Output Calculations Roof Truss Design: View Park Towers, 4th Floor P.O. Box 68221-00200, Nairobi

This document provides calculations for a roof truss design project by Zamconsult consulting engineers. It includes basic data on the truss geometry like a span of 7020mm and pitch of 30 degrees. Load calculations are presented for imposed loads of 0.45kN/m2, and dead loads from roof tiles, battens, truss self-weight, and purlins totaling 1.0kN/m. Wind load calculations refer to a design wind speed of 28m/s for Nairobi and describe how to convert this to dynamic pressure and resultant force on building elements using pressure coefficients.

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REF Output Calculations Roof Truss Design: View Park Towers, 4th Floor P.O. Box 68221-00200, Nairobi

This document provides calculations for a roof truss design project by Zamconsult consulting engineers. It includes basic data on the truss geometry like a span of 7020mm and pitch of 30 degrees. Load calculations are presented for imposed loads of 0.45kN/m2, and dead loads from roof tiles, battens, truss self-weight, and purlins totaling 1.0kN/m. Wind load calculations refer to a design wind speed of 28m/s for Nairobi and describe how to convert this to dynamic pressure and resultant force on building elements using pressure coefficients.

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Zamconsult consulting engineers Ltd

View Park Towers, 4th Floor


P.O. Box 68221-00200, Nairobi

REF

CALCULATIONS
ROOF TRUSS DESIGN
BASIC DATA
Truss spacing
Maximum truss span
Grade stresses parallel to grain

OUTPUT

1800mm
7020mm

Characteristic bending stresses

5.0 N/mm2

Charcteristic tension stress

3 N/mm2

Compression strength
6.0 N/mm2
Typical shear stress
1.1N/mm2
TRUSS GEOMETRY
The sketch of the truss is provided in the following pages
Roof pitch

30o

Rise

3111mm

Rafter length

7020

Triangulated plane roof frames are designed to give clear spans between external
supporting ring beam fixed at 1800mm spacing to support purlins which accept load
from in fill rafters at 600mm spacing.
Truss loading
Imposed loading
Pitched roof with no access @ 0.25kN/m2

0.45 kN/m

Dead Loads
Dead load taken by each truss covering a total area of 11.86 m 2 is as follows:
Decra roof tile load @ 3kg/m2
50 x 40mm Battens @ 450kg/m3
Self-weight of truss @say 3kN
Chipboard load @9.2kg/m2
100 x 50mm purlins @ 450kg/m3
Total dead load generated
Total dead load generated/ linear meter

0.05 kN/m
0.016 kN/m
0.23 kN/m
0.2 kN/m
0.04 kN/m
0.6kN/m
say 1.0 kN/m

Zamconsult consulting engineers Ltd


View Park Towers, 4th Floor
P.O. Box 68221-00200, Nairobi

CALCULATIONS
REF
CP3 Chapter ROOF TRUSS DESIGN
Wind loading
V-2 1972
Wind Speed for Nairobi

OUTPUT

28 M/S

The design wind speed is converted to dynamic pressure q using the relationship
q = kVs2
Table 4, Table 5 and Table 6 give corresponding values of q and V s in the three
systems of units.
The dynamic pressure q is then multiplied by an appropriate pressure coefficient C p
to give the
pressure p exerted at any point on the surface of a building.
p = Cpq.
If the value of the pressure coefficient Cp is negative this indicates that p is a suction
as distinct from a positive pressure. Since the resultant load on an element depends
on the difference of pressure between opposing faces, pressure coefficients may be
given for external surfaces Cpe and internal surfaces Cpi. The resultant wind load on
an element of surface acts in a direction normal to that surface and then:
F =(Cpe Cpi)qA
where A is the area of the surface.
A negative value for F indicates that the resultant force is outwards. The total wind
load on a structure may be obtained by vectorial summation of the loads on all the
surfaces.
The wind coefficientts taken from tables for h/w for 30 o
Cpi for permeable building with 5% openings = 0.2

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