COMPUTERS AND STRUCTURES, INC.

, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 2002

STEEL JOIST DESIGN

Technical Note

Design Load Combinations

This Technical Note described the default design load combinations for steel
joist design in the program.

General
Two default design load combinations created by the program for steel joist
design are:
(DL) + (SDL)

Eqn. 1

(DL) + (SDL) + (LL) + (RLL)

Eqn. 2

where
(DL)

= Sum of all dead load applied to the joist.

(SDL) = Sum of all superimposed dead load applied to the joist.

(LL)

= Sum of all live load applied to the joist.

(RLL)

= Sum of all reducible live load applied to the joist.

You can replace or supplement these default design load combinations with
your own design load combinations, if desired.

General

Technical Note - 1