Purpose: Used to specify wind loading as a local effect on a girder.
--> Given in girder input
An unfactored horizontal loading on the bottom flange due to wind (k/ft, kN/m). Used to determine lateral bending stresses from wind effects in bottom flange according to AASHTO 10.20.2.1 in ASD and LFD, and 4.6.2.7 in LRFD. Not applied in Girder System Projects as loading on the girder system, but only as a local effect on the girders for which it is given.
Bending stress tables for the bottom flange show separate tables for load combinations I, II, and III (ASD, LFD) or Strengths I, III, and V (LRFD).
Factored effect from WIND is included in bottom flange factored bending stress in incremental pouring tables.