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TABLE OF CONTENT
1 GENERAL ......................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1 PURPOSE..................................................................................................................................3
1.2 FEED DOCUMENTS ..................................................................................................................3
1.3 PROJECT ENGINEERING DOCUMENTATION ........................................................................3
1.4 INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND REFERENCES ..............................................................3
1.5 DEFINITIONS ............................................................................................................................3
1.5.1 Reference mean Speed. .....................................................................................................3
1.5.2 3-second gust speed. ..........................................................................................................3
2 WIND SPEED DATA ......................................................................................................................... 4

3 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................. 5

4 EXTREME WIND PRESSURE CALCULATION (WL) ....................................................................... 5

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1 GENERAL

1.1 PURPOSE
After the disagreement between the extreme wind load code implementation the purpose of this
document is to explain the procedure used on the project.
1.2 FEED DOCUMENTS
FACAS001-FAC-MUL-OVL-DTS-0001 Enviromental Data
FACAS001-FAC-000-MUL-BAS-0001 Basic Design Data
FAC09001-FWF-000-CIV-BAS-0200 Civil And Structural Basis Of Design
1.3 PROJECT ENGINEERING DOCUMENTATION
FAC10005-TRE-000-CIV-BAS-0001 Civil & Structural Design Basis
1.4 INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND REFERENCES
D.T.R. C 2-4.7 Reglement Neige Et Vent R.N.V. 1999
ASCE/SEI 7-05 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and other
Structures
WMO/TD-No. 1555 Guidelines for Converting between various wind
averaging periods in tropical cyclone conditions
1.5 RECORD OF THE PROBLEM
Wind load on TOUATGAZ Project FEED Documents is defined with two diferent situations.
Reference Wind Load defined for all structures and equipments in the project, defined according
to Algerian Code D.T.R. C 2-4.7.
Extreme Wind Load defined only for the structrures in the project. This wind is not refered to any
code and there is no reference to extreme wind in Algerian Codes.

FEED documents allow to define wind loads according to NV65 and ASCE 7.

At the start of the project TR study the way to implement both wind loads on the structur design. For the
Reference Wind Load pressure is calculated following D.T.R. C 2-4.7, for the Extreme Wind Load
pressure is calculated following ASCE code.

1.6 DEFINITIONS

1.6.1 Reference mean Speed.

Reference mean speed is the characterictique speed value measured on conventional conditions (DTR
C 2-4.7 Ch.1 2.2.4). It is the value used on Argelian codes, it is mean speed on ten minutes for 50 years
return period (DTR C 2-4.7 Annex 1).
1.6.2 3-second gust speed.
3-second gust speed is the highest average wind speed of 3 second direction in the observed period.
This value is used on ASCE/SEI 7-05.

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2 WIND SPEED DATA

From FEED document FACAS001-FAC-000-MUL-BAS-0001 Basic Design Data is required to design
structures for an extreme wind of 50m/s. This value is not indicated if this value is a 3s gust speed or
mean speed.

In this document is included the metorogical data from Extreme wind for one hour, for differents return
periods.

Feed Document FACAS001-FAC-MUL-OVL-DTS-0001 Enviromental Data include a formula to convert

the mean 1 hour wind speed to 3s gust speed by multiplying the speed by an Gust Factor of 1.6. The
value of extreme wind obtained from this conversion is 51.84 m/s, which is almost exactly the value of
50 m/s proposed by CA.

This value also coincides with the wind speed conversion graph, (DURST graph), which appears in
standard ASCE 7-02 and subsequents. Here, the conversion factor between the speed measured over
one hour and the speed measured over three seconds is 1.53, which in turn gives an extreme wind
speed of 49.57 m/s over 3 seconds. (The DURST graph is attached here too).

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3 CONCLUSION
According to the indicated below is consistent with the provided meteorogical data and recogniced
engeneering procedures to asume that the 50m/s extreme wind speed is related to 3 second wind
speed, hence the most suitable wind pressure calculation, is the described on ASCE/SEI 7-05.

4 WIND LOAD APPLICATION IN PROJECT

According to FAC10005-TRE-000-CIV-BAS-0001 Civil and Structural Design Basis, structrures are
checked against two diferent wind actions. A Mean Reference Wind Speed of 28m/s determining the
wind pressure following the procedure described on D.T.R. C 2-4.7, and an Extreme wind load for a
wind speed of 50m/s determining the wind pressure following the procedure decribed on ASCE/SEI 7-
05.

5 EXTREME WIND PRESSURE CALCULATION (WL)

The extreme wind pressures are determined according to ASCE Minimum Design Loads for Buildings
and Other Structures (ASCE 7-05) for a 3 second gust wind speed of 50 m/s

Building Category: III Table 1-1 ASCE 7-05

Exposure Clasification: D 6.5.6.3 ASCE 7-05
qz 0.613* K z * K zt * Kd *V 2 * I /1000)(kN / m2 ) 6-15 ASCE 7-05
2/
z
K z 2.01*

Table 6-3 ASCE 7-05
zg
K zt 1 6.5.7.1 ASCE 7-05
Kd 1 TABLE 6-4 ASCE 7-05
I 1.15 TABLE 6-1 ASCE 7-05
z g 213.36m TABLE 6-2 ASCE 7-05
11.5 TABLE 6-2 ASCE 7-05

Extreme Wind Speed 50 m/s

2
Height (m) Wind Pressure (kN/m )
5 1.84
10 2.08
15 2.23
20 2.35
25 2.44
30 2.52
35 2.59
40 2.65
45 2.70

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