Snow Loads: A Guide to the Use and Understanding of the Snow Provisions of Asce 7-02

by Michael J. O'Rourke and Peter D. Wrenn

Snow Loading is a frequent and costly cause of structural performance failures. In fact, snow is the controlling roof load in half of US States. As a structural engineer, you must be familiar with snow loads. This book will provide you with the tools you need to understand and compensate for snow loads in structural design. Snow Loads: A Guide to the Use and Understanding of the Snow Load Provisions of ASCE 7-02 is the only book of its kind that provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0784407258
• ISBN13: 9780784407257
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Length: 150 Pages