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10-10-2003, 09:42 AM
martin
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Peak wind speeds
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 23:07:13 +0100, Stephen Howard
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:14:54 +0100,
(Larry
Stoter) wrote:
Nick Maclaren wrote:
In the booklet "The Design of Free-standing Walls", there is a map
showing the speeds that are used for building design in the UK. I
am not going to summarise it (as it is very complex), but here are
a few examples:
London 37
Colchester 41
King's Lynn 44
Newcastle 46
Truro 48
Edinburgh 50
Glasgow 52
Lewis 55
All are in metres/sec, and remember that wind damage is roughly
quadratic in the speed. There is also a varying factor due to the
openness of the terrain.
I'm drinking Stella - what are you on?
And my Cavalier still won't idle...
I thought they spent most of their lives idle :-)
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Martin
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