design loads
load combinations
serviceability
| vertical loads | - | joists, beams, and posts or walls |
| horizontal loads | - | sheathed shearwalls |
| loads | - | effects applied to structure |
| forces | - | demand on a member resulting from applied loads |
| design | - | top down |
| construction | - | bottom up |
prescriptive construction (IBC, IRC)
- no calculations
- for 1 and 2 family dwellings
2012 International Residential Code
minimum design loads
IBC chapter 16 ASCE 7