The dead load and live load on either road are each 1·75 tons per foot run.
But see, there is the waggon with its live load at the door.
In a storage warehouse in Canada, the floor was designed, according to the building laws of the town, for a live load of 150 lb.
Ll being the total live load, and Lt the total dead and live load carried by the bridge.
In a three-span bridge the theoretical advantage of continuity is about 49% for a dead load and 16% for a live load.
He takes as the live load for a bridge two such engines, followed by a train of wagons covering the span.
The four cables support a dead load of 7140 tons and a live load of 4017 tons.
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.
"that which is laid upon a person or beast, burden," c.1200, from Old English lad "way, course, carrying," from Proto-Germanic *laitho (cf. Old High German leita, German leite, Old Norse leið "way, course"); related to Old English lædan "to guide," from PIE *leit- "to go forth" (see lead (v.)). Sense shifted 13c. to supplant words based on lade, to which it is not etymologically connected; original association with "guide" is preserved in lodestone. Meaning "amount customarily loaded at one time" is from c.1300.
Figurative sense of "burden weighing on the mind, heart, or soul" is first attested 1590s. Meaning "amount of work" is from 1946. Colloquial loads "lots, heaps" is attested from c.1600. Phrase take a load off (one's) feet "sit down, relax" is from 1914, American English. Get a load of "take a look at" is American English colloquial, attested from 1929.
A departure from normal body content, as of water, salt, or heat. A positive load is a quantity in excess of the normal; a negative load is a deficit.