Analysis of Live Loads in Office Buildings
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of the Structural Division
- Vol. 103 (8) , 1551-1560
- https://doi.org/10.1061/jsdeag.0004693
Abstract
An analysis of live loads in offices is presented which applies probabilistic live load models to the results of a recent survey of office buildings in the United States conducted by the National Bureau of Standards. The results are compared to a study of live loads in offices in the United Kingdom and the design loads currently specified by ANSI A58.1-1972. On the basis of this study, a new expression for computing allowable reductions in live loads is proposed.Keywords
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