STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS & DESIGN REPORT

QATAR ECONOMIC ZONE 1 & 3 ADMIN & ARCHIVE OFFICE

PARAPET WALL ASSEMBLY
Location: Al Wakra, Qatar

Prepared By :
ARIEL A. BANTUGAN
Structural Design Engineer
Al Hamadi Trading

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

I.

GEOMETRY

II.

ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY

III.

BUILDING CODE REFERENCE

IV.

MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS

V.

WIND LOADS

..

VI.

BRACING & CONNECTION DESIGN

I.

GEOMETRY

II. ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY

Parapet framing assembly is analyze and design as a simple truss with nodal loads on the joints
induced by wind loads with reversal direction that causes both tension and compression of the bracing.

III. CODE REFERENCE

QCS 2010

IV.

EN 1990:2005

Basis of Structural Design

BS EN 1991-1-1:2005

Actions on Structures

BS EN 1991-1-4:2005

Wind Actions

BS EN 1993-1-1:2005

General Rules & Rules for Buildings

BS EN 1993-1-3:2006

Cold Formed thin gauge Members & sheeting

BS EN 1993-1-8:2005

Design of Joints

MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS

A. 89x41x0.75mm, Lip Cee LGS Section

Section

0.75 x 89 x 41x 11mm with Lips

Yield Strength

Fy = 550MPa

Coating

Zinc Coated, Z275

Channel Section

89mmx41mmx11mm Lip x 0.75mm thk.

SECTION PROPERTIES & CAPACITIES :

B. FASTENER (SELF DRILL SCREW)

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V. WIND LOADINGS

WIND LOADING AS PER BS EN1991-1-4:2005

I. Basic Data:
Reference Height , Z
Structure Width
Wall height
Roof Slope
Ze, for external pressure
Terrain category

=
=
=
=
=
=

7.50
53.10
6.00
5.00

m.
m.
m.
deg.
m.

III
see Table 4.1, page 20
Area with regular cover of vegetation or buildings or with isolated
obstacles with separations of maximum 20 obstacle heights (such as
villages, suburban terrain, permanent forest).

II. Basic Wind Velocity, vb :

v b = c dir x c season x v b,o

Equation 4.1, page 18

Directional factor, cdir

Seasonal factor, cseason

=
=

1.00
32.00 m/s

vb
=
III. Mean Wind Velocity, vm(z) :

32.00 m/s

Fundamental wind velocity

recommended value=1.0, Note 2, section 4.2

1.00

v m (z) = c r (z) x c o (z) x v b

Orography factor, co(z)

recommended value=1.0, Note 3, section 4.2

equvalent to 30 m/s mean hourly of QCS 2010

Equation 4.3
recommended value=1.0

1.00

Roughness factor, cr(z)

c r (z) = k r x ln(z/zo)

Equation 4.4

Roughness length, z0

Z0 for terrain category II, zo,II

=
=
=
=

Zmin
Z
use, Z
k r = 0.19 x (z o /z o,II ) 0.07

0.300 m.
0.05
5.00
7.50
7.50

m.
m.
m.
m.

Equation 4.5

therefore, k r

0.21539

therefore, c r (z)

0.69331

22.186 m/s

v m (z)

see Table 4.1

IV. Wind Turbulence, lv(z) :

lv(z) = k 1 /(c o (z) x ln(z/z o ))
turbulence factor,
therefore,

Equation 4.7

k1

1.00

l v (z)

0.31067

recommended value = 1.0, Note 2, section 4.4

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V. Basic Velocity Pressure, q b :

q b = 1/2 x air x v b 2
air density,

air

therefore,

qb

3
1.25 kg/m recommended value = 1.25, Note 2, section 4.5

2
640.00 Pa (N/m )

VI. Peak Velocity Pressure, qp :

q p (z) = [1 + 7l v (z)] x 1/2 x air x v m 2 (z)

Equation 4.8, Note 1, section 4.5

where,

l v (z)

air

v m (z)

22.186 m/s

q p (z)

2
976.64 Pa (N/m )

q p (z)

2
0.977 kPa (kN/m )

0.31067
3
1.25 kg/m

therefore,

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