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November 22, 2013
Sippican Cottage's Handy Guide To Engineering Your House
They're called "Dead Weight," or more precisely, "Dead Load." You and your fourteen cats and furniture that smells like you and fourteen cats is called "Live Load." It's not all that important to sort them out, and you can add it all together, Live and Dead load, and enter it all under HEAVY THING and not worry about calculating it to the last avoirdupois, unless you're running a Zumba class on pogo sticks for the clinically obese in your living room or something equally exotic. Sippican Cottage
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 22, 2013 2:39 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Elegant explanation for the stuff I spent 16 semester hours mastering, actually trying to pass exams. Didn't master till I practiced for a number of years. Yet, that said and even given the tremendous advantages of computers, accounting for wind and snow live loads continues to be a challenge that is resolved mostly by design safety factors. Then, there is soil mechanics: the unk-unk for civil engineers.
Posted by: Tom at November 23, 2013 7:58 AM
Theres so much farm style furnishings around however am still yet to locate a farmhouse type nest of tables -
I'm now starting to believe they do not exist!
Posted by: Anton at January 12, 2014 8:23 PM