6.1 - Live Load Reduction
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Practice Questions
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What is a live load?
💡 Hint: Think about what people and furniture contribute.
What does the K factor represent?
💡 Hint: Consider how different beams and columns behave.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is typically reduced in large buildings due to unlikely simultaneous live loads?
💡 Hint: Consider the nature of usage across spaces.
True or False: The K factor for corner columns is 2.
💡 Hint: Recollect the specific values for structural elements.
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Challenge Problems
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You have designed a recreational center with a large open space and several interior columns. How would you apply the live load reduction principle to different floor areas?
💡 Hint: Consider how changes in space usage might affect load distribution.
Given a roof with a total area of 700 ft², how would you calculate the reduced roof live load using the factors discussed? What are the limits in place?
💡 Hint: Think about area thresholds for R calculations.
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