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Live loads are usually variable or moving loads. These can have a significant dynamic element and may involve considerations such as impact, momentum, vibration, slosh dynamics of fluids, etc. An impact load is one whose time of application on a material is less than one-third of the natural period of vibration of that material.
Structures that carry moving loads can have finite dimensions or can be infinite and supported periodically or placed on the elastic foundation. [ citation needed ] Consider simply supported string of the length l , cross-sectional area A , mass density ρ, tensile force N , subjected to a constant force P moving with constant velocity v .
For live loads (any load that moves during the life of the structure, such as furniture and people), it becomes much harder to predict where the loads will be or how concentrated or distributed they will be throughout the life of the structure. Influence lines graph the response of a beam or truss as a unit load travels across it.
This action can be in the form of load due to the weight of things such as people, furniture, wind, snow, etc. or some other kind of excitation such as an earthquake, shaking of the ground due to a blast nearby, etc. In essence all these loads are dynamic, including the self-weight of the structure because at some point in time these loads were ...
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A typical load case for design for serviceability (characteristic load cases; SLS) is: 1.0 x Dead Load + 1.0 x Live Load. Different load cases would be used for different loading conditions. For example, in the case of design for fire a load case of 1.0 x Dead Load + 0.8 x Live Load may be used, as it is reasonable to assume everyone has left ...
By the summer of 2020, the pandemic had forced about 3 million young adults to move back in with their parents or grandparents, according to CNBC. Eighty percent of them were believed to be ...
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