Can you please elaborate on what you mean by the effect of load combined using the factors to find the total effect at the point of discussion? I'm just a student trying to learn the fundamentals of structural engineering.
In load combinations for RCC structure design, why do we add vertical dead load to horizontal wind load/Earthquake load (1.5DL + 1.5WL/EL, for example)? That looks to me like a scalar addition of the loads. Isn't load a vector quantity? If so, how can we add two perpendicular vectors using...
