A building with a gabled roof will experience pressure on its leeward slope which is

Q. A building with a gabled roof will experience pressure on its leeward slope which is

A

Always

B

Always -ve

C

Sometimes and otherwise -ve

D

Zero

Solution:

A gable roof is a roof consisting of two sections whose upper horizontal edges meet to form its ridge.
A gable roof can have one, two or more gables.
The leeward side of the gable roof will experience a suction.
Due to that suction, the pressurecoefficients will always be negative.

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