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The following roof framing plan shows girders, purlins, and subpurlins. If a dead load of 8.41 psf acts on the tributary area of one of the purlins, determine the equivalent point load that acts at the center of the purlin.

Find the reduced roof live load for a one-story building which has columns evenly spaced every 29 feet in the north-south direction and 20 feet in the east-west direction. The building has an ordinary pitched roof with a slope of 5 inch/foot.

The following roof framing plan shows girders, purlins, and subpurlins. If a dead load of 11.09 psf acts on the tributary area of one of the columns, determine the equivalent point load that acts on the column.

The following roof framing plan shows girders, purlins, and subpurlins. If a dead load of 7.69 psf acts on the tributary area of one of the purlins, determine the equivalent distributed load that acts on the purlin.

You have been tasked with designing a building for storing extremely hazardous materials. According to ASCE 7-10, what is the risk category for this building? Note that specific examples for each category are listed in the ASCE 7 commentary at the end of the document.

A 13-ft-long, simply-supported beam supports a uniformly distributed dead load of 50 lb/ft. Determine the maximum bending moment in the beam.

If a building contains columns that are evenly spaced every 26 feet in the north-south direction and 22 feet in the east-west direction, the tributary area of a typical exterior column would be _______.

A dead load of 14.1 psf acts on a roof with a 2/12 inch/inch pitch. Determine the equivalent flat-roof load.

The density of a dried piece of 2×8 Southern Pine dimension lumber that is 8 feet long and has a moisture content of 13% is _______.

If a building contains columns that are evenly spaced every 15 feet in the north-south direction and 24 feet in the east-west direction, the tributary area of a typical corner column would be _______.