Snow Engineering 2000: Recent Advances and Developments

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E. Hjorth-Hansen, I. Holand, S. Loset, H. Norem
CRC Press, Jan 1, 2000 - Technology & Engineering - 470 pages
This volume presents the background to the recently developed European standard (CEN standard) on snow loads. Many of the papers on "structural engineering" describe results from a European snow project that was completed in 1999.
 

Contents

Perspective of earthquake disaster mitigation in snow season A case study of earthquake
89
T Kobayashi Y Endo Y Nohguchi
105
Lehning J Doorschot N Raderschall P Bartelt
123
Daily observation of snowdrifts around a model cube
137
Global and European standardization ISO and CEN
157
Wind tunnel investigation of snow loads on buildings
171
Snow load serviceability design with focus on the Nordic countries
187
Application of mathematical planning to snow load for structural design
201
Long term stochastic modeling for combination of snow and wind load effects
225
Roof loading due to rainonsnow
239
Recent results
257
Irregular and exceptional snow falls
275
Statistical investigation on snow load in Germany for verification of serviceability limit states
293
Developing ground snow loads for New Hampshire
313
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