wrote:

No one in the group has taken into account a factor in the design of
timber floors called "Duration of Load". (in essence were you to load

No need to worry, we did - at least implicitly...

I used a loading duration of 1.0 (long term) on the calculation I did
with superbeam. ;-)




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Cheers,

John.

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