The backbone of steel frame buildings

Wind Lattices

Dimensioning of various types of wind bracings:

  • Tensile digonals with or without horizontals
  • Tensile/compressive diagonals
  • V-lattices

 

Load contribution:

  • Wind on gables
  • Tangential wind on roof and facings
  • Contribution from flexural torsional buckling supports
  • Unintentional skew erection of the steel frames