CHICAGO – The American Institute of Steel Construction and the Steel Joist Institute have teamed up to create a comprehensive reference volume for rain loads and ponding design.
Design Guide 40, Rain Loads and Ponding provides guidance for the design of roof systems to avoid or resist water accumulation and any resulting instability. It includes an in-depth review of rain loads and ponding effects to help design professionals properly and efficiently design for ponding on roofs constructed with structural steel, open web steel joists, and joist girders.
It also contains several recommended methods of analysis that can be used to consider the effects of ponding, methods of design accounting for ponding effects, and a presentation of the SJI Roof Bay Analysis Tool, along with plenty of design examples that illustrate the concepts discussed.
Mark D. Denavit, PE, PhD, associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and James M. Fisher, PE, PhD, emeritus vice president of CSD Structural Engineers, wrote the design guide.
Design Guide 40 is now available for download at aisc.org/dg. Like all digital design guides, it is free for AISC members.