Strong wind often causes severe damage to a mass of buildings especially the widely existing low-rise buildings.Therefore it is necessary to make clear the distribution law of wind pressures on such kind of buildings and accordingly to find the corresponding wind-resisting means.Numerical simulations were conducted on 60 gable roof low-rise buildings with 10 pitches

3 height-depth ratios and 3 width-depth ratios.According to the test results and the foreign load codes

the surface of the buildings was divided and the most negative region shape coefficients were given.The effects of pitches

height-depth ratios and width-depth ratios on region shape coefficients were analyzed

and the region shape coefficients were fitted with pitches

height-depth ratios and width-depth ratios by least square method.The computed values using the fitted formulas were compared with load codes of different countries.So the reliability of the fitted formulas was verified.Then the region shape coefficient values

wind-resistance design method and simplification formula

which were used to calculate wind loads of main wind-force resisting system in Chinese load code for the design of buildings were suggested in accordance with the test values and ASCE7-10 load codes.