Dear all,
Are you calculation the snow load for piping? how you input it in the CAESAR II? what is your snow load Shape coefficents for piping?
thank you for your comment and advice.

Dear CR 88,

See the last page of attached file.

very thanks to Manik
the snow load Shape coefficents for piping noramly is 0.8 or 0.25?

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In Russian code shape coefficient for snow load is 0.4 (for round crossection)

In case you have both earthquake and snow load, what methodology is used to input in Caesar as all three vectors of earthquake input field are already used by eartquake...where to put the uniform load by snow...please advise.

Regards
MK

Coincident snow load and earthquake ..... ? If there were an earthquake, any snow would be shaken off !!!

Actually for me, I just think about the coincident of snow and wind. How Caesar considers the increasing the surface of area due to wind load. We can imagine like the wave load to pipe surface due to the marine growth. Thanks in advance.

Its not. You input the snow load as a "uniform load". CAESAR II has no idea what this represents.

If you want to combine snow and wind, then you'll have to do some external computations so that you can use "insulation" to simulate snow. Your insulation thickness needs to be 1/2 the snow depth (because insulation will be on both the top and bottom of the pipe), and then the corresponding density should be determined to yield the correct weight/length of snow.

Thanks Sir Richard Ay,

Honestly actually I already guessed that in my heart coz we can set the snow like the insulation with such value of thickness and density. Thanks again.