- Author
- Underwriters Laboratories, Incorporated
- Title
- Wind-Uplift Resistance of Steel Roof Panels in Two Roof Deck Construction. Braden Steel Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Coporate
- Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., Northbrook, IL
- Report
- File R6661-1,-2; Assignment 71NK1307, March 20, 1971, 25 p.
- Keywords
- roofs | steels | construction | insulation | fasteners | sealants
- Identifiers
- purlin; roof panels; flashing angles; end closures
- Abstract
- The subject of this Report is two roof deck assemblies consisting of steel roof deck units over glass fiber blanket insulation attached to a steel purlin with steel fasteners. The object of the investigation was to establish by test, a wind-uplift classification for the roof deck assembly described in this report. The test was conducted in accordance with the test method described in the Bulletin of Research No. 52 of Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., entitled "Development of Apparatus and Test Method for Determining Wind-Uplift Resistance of Roof Assemblies."