Experimental Research of Snowdrift on the Pipeline-Structures

Abstract

This paper would have been to present some results of the experiment using prototype model subjected to snow load on the pipeline-structure. In such as pipeline-structures, it is supposed heavy snow load amount to 50%-70% of all dead load should be taken into account in the design. But authors could not obtain sufficient data because of a few snow in this winter. Therefore in this paper, the observation was focused only on watching snow dispersion on the pipeline-structures.