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Eurocode Snow Load Guide

This document provides information from Eurocode 1 on structural design related to snow loads, including equations from Annex C and Annex D for calculating snow load ratios. It gives an example calculation using the equations and values for a 50 year return period snow load on the ground of 0.58 kN/m^2, determining the 90 year snow load to be 0.64 kN/m^2. References for further information are also provided.

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Eurocode Snow Load Guide

This document provides information from Eurocode 1 on structural design related to snow loads, including equations from Annex C and Annex D for calculating snow load ratios. It gives an example calculation using the equations and values for a 50 year return period snow load on the ground of 0.58 kN/m^2, determining the 90 year snow load to be 0.64 kN/m^2. References for further information are also provided.

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E UROCODES S PREADSHEETS S TRUCTURAL D ESIGN

S ECTION 3 E UROCODE 1 EN 1991-1-3: A NNEX C, A NNEX D

Solution: From eq. D.1 with  P n = 1  n = 1  90  0 0111 :

 1 – 0 5 -------  ln  – ln 1 – ----- 1-   + 0 57722 


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 1 – V ------6-   ln  – ln  1 – P   + 0 57722  
sn   n      90   
---- =  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  =  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ,
sk  1 + 2  5923V   1 + 2 5923  0 5 
   
sn 2 527
---- = ---------------  1 10 .
sk 2 296

Figure 3.28 Ratio sn/sk with V = 0,5 plotted against “n” (years).

For a characteristic snow load on the ground equal to  s k = 0 58  kN / m2  (return period of 


50 years), we get ( n = 90  years):
s n = 1 10  s k = 1 10  0 58 = 0 64  kN / m2 .

example-end

3.4 References [Section 3]

Derivation of snow load, Technical Guidance Note, TheStructuralEngineer,


March 2012. Web resource:
www.istructe.org/resources-centre/library.

page 42 Topic: User’s Manual/Verification tests - EN1991-1-3_(c).xls

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