WIND LOADS ON BUILDINGS WITH ATTACHED CANOPIES

It is a general practice to provide a flat or sloping slab called canopy at the entrance door of the building at the ground level wherever space permits. This may be cantilever type slab or supported one. While designing various structural elements and cladding units of buildings for wind loads, values of wind pressure coefficients are obtained from relevant code of practice where in the values are available for buildings with plane cladding only. Very limited information is available regarding wind pressure on canopies in codes of practice on wind loads including Indian Standard Code of Practice. Present paper enumerates the available codal information with respect to wind loads on buildings with attached canopies. It also describes in brief the latest research work done in this area.