Snow engineering V : proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Snow Engineering, 5-8 July 2004, Davos, Switzerland /: proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Snow Engineering, 5-8 July 2004, Davos, Switzerland. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Snow engineering 5; Snow engineering five; Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Snow Engineering; Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Snow Engineering; Fifth International Conference on Snow Engineering; 5th International Conference on Snow Engineering
• Further Information: Note: Edited by P. Bartelt [and four others].
• Other Names: International Conference on Snow Engineering, 5th
• Contents: Transportation -- Friction indicators for improving winter maintenace operation -- Friction coefficients on winter road surfaces using Mulit-axial sensing system vehicel -- \\Road ice prediction model in snowy areas using neural network -- Hosuing and residential planning -- \\Snow distribution on complex roofs -- Housing design in the snowny regions of japan: in case of Hokkaido -- \\Study on the influence of streescape owing in snow in Aomori, Japan -- Sliding snow and ice on buildings: a balance of risk, cost and asethetics -- \\Snow Loads -- Reliability of structures under snow load in Ukraine -- Field investigation of snow loads on a gable roof -- \\Ground snow loads in Poland -- A proposal for a new normative snow load map for the italian territority -- \\Analysis of exceptional snow load values for long term observation series -- New structural design method in snow countries -- \\Time series analysis of winter metheorological variations in snowy and cold regions in Japan -- \\Investigation of snow loasds and wind actions on existing buildings in Norway -- Analytical evaluation of drift loads on roofs -- \\Ground snow load estimation with Kringing -- The use of deflactors to remove snowdrifts arouund building -- \\Snow deposition around mountain hut: design optimization by CFD and scaled water channel model and realization of solution -- \\The new map of ground snow loads for Russian building copde -- Unifying ground snowloads for the Western United States -- \\Wind tunnel investigation of snow accumulations on a single flat roof and a two level flat roof using artifical snow -- \\Numerical simulationof snow drift around an evaluated structure -- Measures of snow drift around a building -- \\SKI MECHANICS -- Analysing snowboard mechanics -- Mechanical properties of snow during rapid impacts -- Physical description of the snowmaking process using the jet technique and properties of the produced snow -- \\HAZARD MITIGATION -- Risk analysis on snow-related cases in Niigata prefecture, Japan -- Quantification of winter severity for evacuation facility management and disaster prevention in cold regions -- Construction of snow diaster forecasting system in japan -- \\SNOW TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE -- Experimental study a=on open air storage of snow with simple insulation using agriculturla wastes -- Concept of electrical power output control system for atomic generation plant utilizing cool energy of stored snwo -- Activities of the Japan Society of Snow Engineering: past, present and future -- Snow as a cohesive granular material: a new challenge in constitutive modelling -- Elution phenomena of acidic ions from granular snow and spherical ice -- A physically based constitutive model for singel crystal ice -- Stimulating snwo settlement and sjhear creep using the CRREL Snow Deformation Model -- Flat dilatomer testing (DTM) in snow -- The main regularities of spatial changes in structure: strength properties of the snow cover in Mountains of central Asia -- Review of SNOWPACK and ALPINE3D applications -- \\ AVALANCHE ENGINEERING -- Reducing avalanche harzard to US Routre 89/191 in jackson, Wyoming usingssnow sails -- Fuzzy parameters analysis of power snow avalanches -- The Morgex avalanche: a comparative study -- Recalculation of the Galtuer avalanche with different models: a comparision of the results -- Practical experiences in planning and building avalanche barriers and deflecting dams -- Back-analysis of 1999 avalanche damages on Taconnaz deflective wall -- Anchoring of snowpack stablizing in high mountain areas with exacvator -- Granular flow experiments to investigate dynamics avalanche ofr n=snow sled design -- Modeling and design of flexible snow supporting strcutures.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (394 pages)
• Subjects: 624.172 I61 S05; Engineering -- Cold weather conditions -- Congresses; Snow protection -- Congresses; Snow removal -- Congresses; Snow loads -- Congresses; Snow mechanics -- Congresses; Snow -- Congresses; Engineering -- Cold weather conditions; Snow; Snow loads; Snow mechanics; Snow protection; Snow removal; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482259902; 1482259907
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