A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Beside seismic activity climate changes, reflecting in extreme events such as heat and cold waves, storms and floods, presents the main natural hazards. Although predicting events perimeter is not trivial, the vulnerabilities of society emphasizing built environment should be at least critically estimated and re-estimated, especially after the occurrence of such event. Many strong thunderstorms causing huge damage to agriculture and to build environment occurred in recent summers. Meteorologists concluded that summer storms especially those ones in July and August 2008 were very intense and affected many Slovenian regions. Extensive damage to buildings rose up questions about possible causes: bad construction practice, use of inappropriate materials, deficient maintenance and inadequate building regulation relating to loads. Some experts also claimed that additional material and product characteristics should be tested /defined to prevent extensive damage, like hail resistance for example. Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG) tried to answer to these questions in a special research project, financed by Slovenian Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning (MOP).
Beside seismic activity climate changes, reflecting in extreme events such as heat and cold waves, storms and floods, presents the main natural hazards. Although predicting events perimeter is not trivial, the vulnerabilities of society emphasizing built environment should be at least critically estimated and re-estimated, especially after the occurrence of such event. Many strong thunderstorms causing huge damage to agriculture and to build environment occurred in recent summers. Meteorologists concluded that summer storms especially those ones in July and August 2008 were very intense and affected many Slovenian regions. Extensive damage to buildings rose up questions about possible causes: bad construction practice, use of inappropriate materials, deficient maintenance and inadequate building regulation relating to loads. Some experts also claimed that additional material and product characteristics should be tested /defined to prevent extensive damage, like hail resistance for example. Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG) tried to answer to these questions in a special research project, financed by Slovenian Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning (MOP).
Timber Roof Structures in Extreme Weather Conditions
Advanced Materials Research ; 778 ; 1080-1087
2013-09-18
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Timber , Wind Load , Roof Structure , Summer Storms , Hail
Timber Roof Structures in Extreme Weather Conditions
| Tema Archive | 2013
Timber Roof Structures in Extreme Weather Conditions
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2013
Traditional Timber Structures in Extreme Weather Conditions
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2015
NUMERICAL STUDY OF TRADITIONAL TIMBER ROOF STRUCTURES
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006
Hounslow East Station: timber lamella roof structures
British Library Online Contents | 2002