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Towards wider use of the accidental load case

 Towards wider use of the accidental load case
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Presented at IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010, published in , pp. 838-839
DOI: 10.2749/222137810796064093
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It is only in Eurocodes that the concept of designing for specifically defined accidental actions using reduced partial safety factors has appeared in codes of practice outside the UK. This paper c...
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Author(s):
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010
Published in:
Page(s): 838-839 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 838-839
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.2749/222137810796064093
Abstract:

It is only in Eurocodes that the concept of designing for specifically defined accidental actions using reduced partial safety factors has appeared in codes of practice outside the UK. This paper considers a range of accidental scenarios including gas explosion, bomb blast, burst water main, flood, roof ponding, car park barriers, horizontal human loads on barriers, snow load, ice accretion, wind load, helicopter hard landing, fire, and local failure. It is concluded that generally the Eurocodes identify accidental design situations successfully, but that both vehicle and human loading on barriers should be more explicitly and better treated, and that roof ponding and ice accretion should also be considered.

Keywords:
wind ice barriers ponding loading Eurocodes Snow explosions accidental actions