Live Load Definition

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noun
Any load not constant in its application, as the moving traffic carried by a bridge or other structure in addition to its own weight.
Webster's New World
(roofing) Temporary load that the roof structure must be designed to support, as required by governing building codes. Live loads are generally moving and/or dynamic or environmental, (e.g., people, installation equipment, snow, ice or rain, etc.)
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Noun

Singular:
live load
Plural:
live-loads

Live Load Sentence Examples

  • He takes as the live load for a bridge two such engines, followed by a train of wagons covering the span.

  • For all these reasons the stresses due to the live load are greater than those due to the same load resting quietly on the bridge.

  • These percentages are added to the live load stresses.

  • It was pointed out as early as 1869 (Unwin, Wrought Iron Bridges and Roofs) that a rational method of fixing the working stress, so far as knowledge went at that time, would be to make it depend on the ratio of live to dead load, and in such a way that the factor of safety for the live load stresses was double that for the dead load stresses.

  • Working Stress for combined Dead and Live Load.

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