wool:USA (Wind Code ASCE 7-10)

wool:USA (The Wind Tool) is the pocket calculator which determines building response as per the US national wind-loading code ASCE 7-2010.

The perfect tool to aid engineering professionals, students and teachers in the calculation and verification of the design of mid-rise and tall-buildings in the USA.

wool:USA is possibly the best thing since the invention of the Boundary Layer Wind-Tunnel

★ Design your own building and calculate the following responses for wind along two-orthogonal directions:

* Base Overturning Moments

* Base Shear Forces

* Maximum Tip deflection

* Torsion

★ Calculate and plot the following over the height of the building:

* Static, Dynamic and Total Wind Loads

* Shear Forces

* Deflection

* Torsion

★ Easy to use interface with minimal inputs required from the user:

* Basic building dimensions (HxLxD)

* Frequencies of vibration and assumed structural damping (pre-sets as defined by ASCE 7-10 and commentary)

* Upstream terrain category and regional wind speed (with hi-res map of various return periods and regions of the US to aid in the selection of regional wind speed)

★ Advanced controls available for the experienced engineer:

* Topographic Multiplier (Kzt)

* Wind Directionality Factor (Kd)

* Eccentricity creating torsion

* Building density

★ Outputs important parameters used in the calculation of building response for user reference:

* Response factors (peak, background and resonant)

* Gust effect factor and its components (mean, background, resonant)

* Reference dynamic pressure

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★ SI and Imperial Units

★ Help Buttons for more information on the definition of inputs