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Digital Ground Snow Load Map for the Area of the Czech Republic

Vit Krivy, Martin Striz
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series
2010, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 11-19
Doi: 10.2478/v10160-010-0002-7
The paper deals with the problems of design and reliability assessment of roof structural elements exposed to the effects of snow load. A new digital ground snow load map of the Czech Republic is introduced in this paper. This digital map provides to structural designers detailed information about the characteristics of snow load on the ground for arbitrary selected locality in the Czech Republic.
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