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Understanding Sustained Loads in Structures

Sustained loads are loads that act continuously throughout the life of a structure, such as the structure's self weight, parapets, crash barriers, surfacing, and fills. These loads cause creep and cracking over time. Earth pressure on retaining walls is also considered a sustained load. Sustained loads are different from variable loads like live loads from occupancy, wind loads, and seismic loads, which only act temporarily. Both sustained and variable loads must be considered together using factors of safety for structural design and analysis.

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Understanding Sustained Loads in Structures

Sustained loads are loads that act continuously throughout the life of a structure, such as the structure's self weight, parapets, crash barriers, surfacing, and fills. These loads cause creep and cracking over time. Earth pressure on retaining walls is also considered a sustained load. Sustained loads are different from variable loads like live loads from occupancy, wind loads, and seismic loads, which only act temporarily. Both sustained and variable loads must be considered together using factors of safety for structural design and analysis.

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Sustained loads are the loads which act throughout the service life of the structure.
These loads include the self weight of the structure and superimposed dead loads on
the structure such as parapets, crash barriers, surfacing and fills over the structure.
These loads are responsible for creep and cracks in the structure. Earth pressure can
also be treated as sustained load in design of retaining structures. Sustained loads
are also called quasi permanent loads.

On the other hand variable loads are loads which act for a fixed duration. Major
variable loads are live load, wind and seismic loads.

The sustained loads and variable loads are combined together with adequate factors
for limit state design and stress check in structures.

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