Snow drifts at windward roof steps

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1330-1336

  O'Rourke, Michael ^a   De Angelis, Charles ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FM Global Engineering and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Building codes; Roofs; Snow loads; Snowdrifts

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

SNOW LOADS; SNOWDRIFTS; STRUCTURAL DAMAGE;

ROOFS;

EID: 8644271164     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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