Second International Conference on Snow Engineering; June 21-26, 1992; Santa Barbara, California

这次会议是从1988年开始计划的雪工程系列会议的第二次。这些会议为工程师、建筑师和科学家提供了一个论坛，讨论调查和设计方法，以减轻积雪对建筑物和其他结构造成的自然灾害。必须更好地了解雪荷载的性质、分布和统计数据，以改进建筑设计标准并减轻损害。会议将吸引来自不同背景的人，并提供一个独特的环境来交流思想、意见和雪工程的工作知识。通过一系列的全体会议、工作坊、海报会议和小组讨论，与会者将讨论现场测量、风洞研究、人工环境、分析方法、雪力学、设计问题和建筑标准/规范。会议记录将包括邀请演讲者的论文，研讨会立场文件，简短的海报文件和小组讨论的文字记录。

The proposed conference is the second of a planned series on snow engineering that began in 1988. These meetings provide a forum for engineers, architects, and scientists to discuss investigative and design methods to mitigate natural hazards imposed by snow on buildings and other structures. The nature, distribution, and statistics of snow loads must be better understood to improve building design criteria and mitigate damage. The conference will attract people from a wide diversity of backgrounds and provide a unique setting for interchanging ideas, opinions, and working knowledge of snow engineering. Using series of plenary sessions, workshops, poster sessions, and panel discussions participants will discuss field measurements, wind tunnel studies, artificial environments, analytical methods, snow mechanics, as well as design problems and building standards/codes. The conference proceedings will contain papers by invited speakers, workshop position papers, short poster papers, and transcripts of panel discussions.