Dynamics of snow melting on tents during possibly threatening precipitation

• Authors: Grzegorz Kimbar
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Lightweight tent structures are allowed under European codes to be designed for reduced snow load if the interior of a tent is appropriately heated. The dependence of the resultant snow load on snowfall rate is considered in this paper for such cases. A simple thermodynamic model of the heat flux is derived. Numerical simulation reveals the occurrence of a precipitation rate threshold value above which safety measure provided by heating becomes ineffective.

Keywords

PL

snow load, tents, safety

• Publisher: [unknown2]
• Journal: Czasopismo Techniczne
• Year: -

Dates

online

2016-02-04

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Kimbar