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dead load

The weight of a building,not counting the occupants and furnishings.

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In the same way, common duct which is the additional superimposed dead load was also simulated for composite behavior after its installation.
Superimposed dead loads included weight of new jersey barriers, footpath and wearing surfaces.
For cargo and commercial mail, available dead load ton-kilometers (ADTK) for March 2012 was lower than the same month of 2011, which was attributed to the returning of the freighter aircraft upon the lease expiration.
Available dead load ton-kilometres for May 2011 was 10.3% higher than in May 2010 and revenue freight ton-kilometres for May 2011 was 4.3% lower than in May 2010.
Moreover, Rakslim cuts down almost half of the weight of conventional tiling, resulting in a significant reduction of dead load on building structures and subsequently reducing structure costs.
The fatigue action effect in the concrete is described by the maximum and minimum stress values due fatigue loading and dead load of the structure including permanent loads.
This is the sum of a 20-pounds-per-square-foot dead load (including a ballasted membrane roof, which was typical for roofs on shopping centers in the early 1980s, for example); for a roof live load (or snow load in some areas of the country), it's a sum of approximately 30 pounds per square foot.
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