ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the wind-loading provisions of several prominent national, multi-national and international documents, and highlights their similarities and differences. In ASCE 7-16, an analytical procedure for determination of a 'gust effect factor', Gf, for the along-wind vibrations of flexible buildings and other structures is presented in the commentary section of that Standard. General comparisons between major wind-loading codes and standards have been made by Cook, Mehta, and Zhou et al. In many cases, other standards and design guides have been issued for structures apart from buildings. The proliferation in a short time of large-scale energy harvesting by arrays of solar panels on inclined frames has left wind codes and standards struggling to provide up-to-date wind-load information for the supporting structures, the design of which is governed by wind loads. This chapter reviewes the provisions of five major and current (at the time of writing) standards for wind loading.
