Effects of Snow Load on Light-Weight Steel Structures

Abstract:

With the rapid development of economic and construction industry, light-weight steel structural system is widely used in the modern building construction. While, the light-weight steel structures are more sensitive under the effect of snow load than the other structure systems according to the data from the large amount of accidents of steel structure failures, which indicated the necessary and urged us to focus on the impact of snow on the light-weight steel structures. This paper introduces the current research situation and analyzes the method of snow load determination on gable frames in the load code of different countries, and provides some suggestions on the snow load design of light-weight steel structures finally.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 501-504)
• Pages: 777-781
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.501-504.777
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Fang Hui Li*, Fan Meng
• Keywords: Lightweight Steel Structure, Load Code, Snow Load, Unbalanced Distribution

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