Collection and analysis of climatic measurements for the assessment of snow loads on structures

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 603-615

  Sadovský, Zoltán ^a   Faško, Pavol ^b   Pecho, Jozef ^b   Bochníček, Oliver ^b   Mikulova, Katarína ^b   Šťastný, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Characteristic value; Climatological measurements; Probability distribution; Snow load; Structure

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN GAGES; SNOW;

CHARACTERISTIC VALUES; CLIMATOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; RAIN-GAUGE STATIONS; SNOW LOADS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 38149135914     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539307002829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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