Downloads
TO REVIEW OR PREVIEW THE 2007 Edition of the AAF Guide to Aluminum Construction in High Wind Areas (complete) and/or Addendum 1.2 (complete), navigate to the Publications section of this site, and then to the AAF Construction Guide pages.
Historical: Test Report and Conclusions of Wind Tunnel testing program sponsored by the AAF. White paper to American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal: "Wind Loads on Screen Enclosures" by Timothy A. Reinhold, P.E., Ph.D, 1999
Slide Presentation to the South Florida Chapter of the Florida Structural Engineers Association January 8th, 2008 by David Miller, Chairman, AAF Technical Committee
INSTRUCTIONAL:
Explanation and tutorial of "Load Width", a concept necessary for the use of prescriptive design methods. (Note: this file is bulky and will take a couple of minutes to download).
Load Width Explanation/Tutorial w/ Examples
Tutorial on Linear Interpolation (LERP)
[THESE TWO UPDATED (July 2009) SPREADSHEETS NOW REFLECT REVISED TECHNIQUES OF CALCULATION IN THE 2005 ADM]
Excel Spreadsheet: Allowable Stress Calculations for Industry Standard Self-Mating Beams of 6005T5 or 6061T6 alloy using the 2005 Edition of the Aluminum Design Manual (aluminum.org).
Excel Spreadsheet: Allowable Stress Calculations for Industry Standard Self-Mating Beams of 6063T6 alloy using the 2005 Edition of the Aluminum Design Manual (aluminum.org).
STRUCTURAL CALCULATION: Allowable uplift loads which may be resisted by an unreinforced concrete slab on grade based upon the rupture of the concrete.
Excel Spreadsheet - Aluminum Design Manual Allowable Stress Calculations for Industry Standard Hollow Tubes
(The spreadsheet for hollow tubes above has not yet been updated to reflect new calculations in Section 4.7.3 of the 2005 ADM)
dwg (Autocad® 2000) format drawings of industry extrusions:
Industry Standard Shapes (hollow, open back, self-mating and snap)
Railing Profiles
UPDATE NOTES: {be sure to read the notes on the worksheet]
DESIGN CHECK FOR BEAMS & POSTS IN SCREEN ENCLOSURES now includes computations for simultaneous compression and shows the resulting interaction ratio and advises whether design is OK or overstressed (March 23, 2009).
Design Check for Posts & Beams displayed below updated August 7th, 2008 to reflect allowable bending stress and allowable bending moment calculations as prescribed on the spreadsheets listed above.
UPDATED November 2008 to allow calculation for glitch cycle code modification #3234 permiting a uniform reduction in design pressures for 18/14 density screen.
Excel Spreadsheet - DESIGN CHECK FOR POSTS & BEAMS IN SCREEN ENCLOSURES (for building departments & engineers)
DESIGN PRESSURES FOR SCREEN(Table 2002.4 FBC) with Code Modification # 3234 depicting reduced pressures for use
of 18/14 density screen cloth.
2007 AAF Guide to Aluminum Construction in High Wind Areas: Design Procedure/Checkists | 
