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Record W2326742412 · doi:10.1061/41031(341)316

Wind Loads on Patio Covers

2009· article· en· W2326742412 on OpenAlex
Ioannis Zisis, Ted Stathopoulos

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Bibliographic record

VenueStructures Congress 2009 · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWind and Air Flow Studies
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRoofCover (algebra)EngineeringArchitectural engineeringForensic engineeringCivil engineeringMechanical engineering

Abstract

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A common characteristic of North American low-rise residential buildings is the patio, a very active and eventful part of family's living space, with a number of activities to take place on it. For most home owners and unfortunately for many retailers, the patio cover is assumed to be a structure of minor importance which can be constructed without any special design. Patio covers are structures that have not fully been examined and evaluated by the present building codes. Very few studies have been carried out and it is questionable whether the performance of these structures is underestimated or, in the contrary, these are over-designed due to the lack of appropriate knowledge. Like every engineering problem, the dilemma vacillates between safety and cost. The current study presents the methodology and findings of a set of wind tunnel tests on a building model with a patio cover attached to it. Both the testing procedure and the data analysis are discussed and detailed results are presented. Although these structures are relatively simple, they occasionally form part of an existing building, subjected to same loads and accommodating the same number of people — or even more — as that building. Patio covers are often treated as a subsection of canopies. Sometimes they are even assumed to be an extension of the roof. In most cases though, patio covers cannot fall under any of the above categories. Canopies are used as covers and are not usually surrounded by walls. The specifications, use and geometry of canopy roofs though, defers significantly of those of patio covers. Moreover, patio covers are often at a lower level than that of the roof, thus they cannot be treated as roof extensions or overhangs. The only wind codes that clearly refer to attached patio covers are the International Building Code [IBC 2000], the International Residential Code [IRC 2000] and the Australian Wind Standard [AS/NZS 1170.2:2002]. Various other national building codes include wind provisions for canopy roofs or open buildings.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.795
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.218 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it