Sentence examples for snow load from inspiring English sources
noun
The live load due to the weight of snow on a roof; included in the design calculations.
"What happens is, with a heavy snow load, it tends to break apart," he said.
To this day, in a northern Canadian city that averages roughly 50cm of snow a month in winter, the Olympic Stadium cannot be used if the snow load exceeds 3cm.
In the winter of the next year, that roof tore under a heavy snow load, sending a small avalanche of ice cascading on to workers preparing for a motor show.
According to the Web site of Summit Structures — the makers of the Patriots' and the Cowboys' facilities — the Patriots 80,000-square-foott facility has a steel-truss frame that can support a heavy snow load, a greater concern in Massachusetts than high winds.
The obtained results are lower than the derived snow load considering field investigation.
Furthermore, the mechanical performance of the membrane structure under snow load is studied.
Snow load is defined as a product of snow density, snow depth and gravitational acceleration.
The considered snow load has a pattern of a seasonal occurrence of snowfall.
The quality of available snow load data as related to the spatial dependency analysis is mentioned.
In Fort Collins, north of Denver, the snow-load split a 30-foot Chinese elm down the center of its trunk.
Currently, only Heki (2003) has successfully explained the seasonality in northern Japan quantitatively by using a snow-load model.
