Reliability-based assessment of roofs in Japan subjected to extreme snows: Incorporation of site-specific data

Engineering Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-95

  Takahashi, Toru ^a   Ellingwood, Bruce R ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings (codes); Design (buildings); Limit states; Loads; Probability; Reliability; Snow; Statistics; Structural engineering

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; DISASTERS; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STEEL;

JAPANESE BUILDING CODES (JBC); NATURAL HAZARDS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEEL ROOFS; WEATHER STATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

LOADING; ROOF; SNOW;

EID: 11144346722     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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