Exceptional snowfalls and the assessment of accidental snow loads for structural design

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-22

  Sadovsky Z ^a   Fasko P ^b   Mikulova K ^b   Pecho, J ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE   (Slovakia)

^b SLOVAK HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Accidental loads; Approximations of exceedances; Exceptional snowfalls; Snow loads; Structural design

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL LOADS; ANNUAL MAXIMA; APPROXIMATIONS OF EXCEEDANCES; CLIMATOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; EMPIRICAL PROBABILITIES; EXCEPTIONAL SNOWFALLS; MEASURING STATIONS; NATURAL PHENOMENA; RETURN PERIODS; SLOVAKIA; SNOW LOADS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; CLIMATOLOGY; DESIGN; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SNOW; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DESIGN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SNOW;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84856111222     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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