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Civil Engineering Practice • Structural Engineering

Determinacy, Loads & Load Paths

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Worked: a factored floor load

A beam picks up a 10 ft tributary width of floor carrying 80 psf dead and 50 psf live. D = 0.8 kip/ft and L = 0.5 kip/ft. 1.2D + 1.6L = 0.96 + 0.80 = 1.76 kip/ft, which governs over 1.4D = 1.12 kip/ft.

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