Forces Acting on Structures

What is a static load?

• A load that causes static electricity

• A moving load

• A non-moving load

What is a dynamic load?

• A moving load

• A non-moving load

• A load that is always changing

Compression is a force that ________

• squeezes material together

• twists materials

• pulls materials

• rips materials

What type of force is torsion?

• Twisting

• Pushing

• Ripping

• Pulling

The size, direction and the location of where the force is applied are all factors that can effect a structure.

• True

• False

The force that pulls objects toward earth

• shear

• specification

• gravity

Bend or tear a material by pressing different parts in opposite directions at the same time

• shear

• torsion

• tension

What is a force?

• A push or a pull that causes an object to change its movement or shape.

• A push or twist that causes an object to change its movement or

• Something from Star Wars

Internal forces are forces that act on structures from the ...

• outside

• inside

What are examples of live loads that are external forces?

• a person sitting on a chair

• snow on a roof

• wind on a building

• people in a building

• legs of a table