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live load

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live load

The amount of additional weight that can be safely added to a building without structural failure or stress.It includes furniture,equipment,and people. Contrast with dead load.



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The research undertaken was applied to the architect's design, with analysis rafter self-weight, and theoretical dead loads of bamboo sheeting and live loads representing rain and maintenance.
At this point in the development of loss-of-weight feeding, there were still some disadvantages, one being the very large dead load to live load ratio of the hopper and feeder equipment related to the actual ingredient quantity to be weighed.
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