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If you wiggle about on a chair, sit down suddenly, jump up and down, walk along a plank or drive across a bridge, you are applying a dynamic or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_load#Imposed_loads '''Live Load'''] to the structure. | |||
'''Live Loads''' may be many times greater than the dead loads and often much more difficult to deal with because they can involve sudden changes in size and direction. Strong winds for example can often be the cause of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_failure '''structural failure''']. | '''Live Loads''' may be many times greater than the dead loads and often much more difficult to deal with because they can involve sudden changes in size and direction. Strong winds, for example, can often be the cause of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_failure '''structural failure''']. | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:02, 22 December 2015
If you wiggle about on a chair, sit down suddenly, jump up and down, walk along a plank or drive across a bridge, you are applying a dynamic or Live Load to the structure.
Live Loads may be many times greater than the dead loads and often much more difficult to deal with because they can involve sudden changes in size and direction. Strong winds, for example, can often be the cause of a structural failure.