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Jun 21, 2023
Chapter 13
Solar Paneled Roofs
Publication: Snow Loads: Guide to the Snow Load Provisions of ASCE 7-22
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This chapter presents O’Rourke and Isyumov’s recommendations for Snow Loads for Solar Paneled Roofs. The O’Rourke and Isyumov guide provide loads for the roof beams, roof girders and columns. They consider four types of solar panels: flush panels, tilted-closed panels, tilted-open panels, and elevated panels. The first five specific recommendations address the balanced roof snow load, which are a function of the ground snow load, the thermal factor, the exposure factor, and the slope factor. Like the sliding load recommendations, the recommendations for drift loads cover drift adjacent to the solar panels themselves owing to the panels behaving as roof top obstructions.
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Snow Loads: Guide to the Snow Load Provisions of ASCE 7-22
Pages: 125 - 135
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© 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jun 21, 2023
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Beams
- Design (by type)
- Drift (structural)
- Energy engineering
- Energy sources (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Girders
- Load factors
- Renewable energy
- Roofs
- Snow loads
- Solar power
- Static loads
- Statics (mechanics)
- Stress (by type)
- Structural analysis
- Structural behavior
- Structural design
- Structural engineering
- Structural members
- Structural systems
- Thermal loads
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Michael O’Rourke, Ph.D.
P.E.
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