ISSN 2319-5347, ISI Impact Factor: 0.763

VOLUME 04 NO. 03 JULY 2015:

Title:         Structural design of pergola with airfoil louvers
Authors:Muhammad Tayyab Naqash
Abstract:   The here presented paper deals with the structural calculation for a Pergola consists of Airfoil Louvers and its supporting beams that are connected to the wall. The overall height of the pergola is about 5.0m,subjected to a wind load of 1.2 Kpa, calculated for a mean hourly basic wind speed of 25m/sec [1]. Therefore the pergola is checked for the prescribed wind load. Stresses and deflection checks obtained from the numerical model [2] have been carried out for louvers and the supporting beams and found SAFE according to different acceptance criterion. [3, 4]. The louvers are attached to the Aluminum plate when then is connected to a steel tube. The paper gives complete design procedure for the design of a pergola using SAP 2000 software.
Keywords:Airfoil Louvers, Structural design, Aluminum, Steel, Numerical models


pages               120-127

 

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