Recent European research advances in snow loading and their possible implementation in the Eurocodes

✍ Scribed by R Del Corso; P Formichi; U Stiefel

• Book ID: 105360994
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 269 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1365-0556
• DOI: 10.1002/pse.62

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The main results of a prenormative research programme on snow loads, sponsored in 1996 by the European Commission, are presented. The research work, to which eight European scientific institutions took part, addressed the determination of ground and roof snow loads for ultimate and serviceability limit states verifications.

European regulations regarding snow loads are currently in the process of being updated, as Eurocode 1 is being converted from ENV 1991‐2‐3 to EN 1991‐1‐3. Many of the research results have been considered during the conversion process, but their direct introduction into the new code has raised some problems, since such results are not yet well established. The use of the research results for normative purposes is discussed and some open problems are presented.