Architectural Drafting and Design (MindTap Course List)
Architectural Drafting and Design (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781285165738
Author: Alan Jefferis, David A. Madsen, David P. Madsen
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 29, Problem 29.1Q
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The two major categories of loads affecting buildings.

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Gravity loads and lateral loads are loads affecting buildings.

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Major categories of loads that affect buildings:

  • Gravity loads
  • Lateral loads
  • Temporary loads
  • Moving loads
  • Uplift loads

The gravity loads on each structure cause a downward movement. Gravity loads include dead loads, live loads and dynamic loads.Due to the complexity of calculating such loads accurately, building codes include tables of conventional safe loads which may help in determining the amount of stressor weight which acton each given member.

Lateral loads are live loads applied parallel to the ground.They are forces acting in the horizontal direction on a structure. For example, wind load. They vary from gravity loads which aredownward, vertical forces.

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