ASNZS1170.1 2002 Structural Design Actions - Permanent, imposed and other actions

CONTENTS

	Page
SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL
1.1 SCOPE	5
1.2 APPLICATION	5
1.3 DETERMINATION OF DESIGN ACTIONS	5
1.4 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS	5
1.5 DEFINITIONS	6
1.6 NOTATION	6
SECTION 2 PERMANENT ACTIONS
2.1 GENERAL	7
2.2 CALCULATION OF SELF-WEIGHT	7
2.3 PROVISION FOR PARTITIONS	7
2.4 REMOVABLE ITEMS	7
SECTION 3 IMPOSED ACTIONS
3.1 GENERAL	8
3.2 CONCENTRATED ACTIONS	8
3.3 PARTIAL LOAD	8
3.4 FLOORS	8
3.5 ROOF AND SUPPORTING ELEMENTS	12
3.6 BARRIERS	13
3.7 ACTIONS FROM INSTALLED CRANES, HOISTS, LIFTS AND MACHINERY	15
3.8 CAR PARKS	16
3.9 GRANDSTANDS	17
SECTION 4 LIQUID PRESSURE, GROUND WATER, RAINWATER PONDING AND EARTH PRESSURE
4.1 GENERAL	18
4.2 LIQUID PRESSURE	18
4.3 GROUND WATER	18
4.4 RAINWATER PONDING	18
4.5 EARTH PRESSURE	18
APPENDICES
A UNIT WEIGHTS OF MATERIALS	19
B OTHER IMPOSED ACTIONS	22

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AS/NZS 1170.1:2002

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical Committee BD-006, General Design Requirements and Loading on Structures. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 29 March 2002 and on behalf of the Council of Standards New Zealand on 28 March 2002.

This Standard was published on 4 June 2002.

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The following are represented on Committee BD-006:

Association of Consulting Engineers Australia

Australian Building Codes Board

Australian Institute of Steel Construction

Building Research Association of New Zealand

Cement and Concrete Association of Australia

CSIRO, Building, Construction and Engineering

Cyclone Testing Station—James Cook University

Electricity Supply Association of Australia

Housing Industry Association

Institution of Engineers Australia

Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand

Master Builders Australia

New Zealand Heavy Engineering Research Association

Steel Reinforcement Institute of Australia

University of Newcastle

University of Auckland (New Zealand)

University of Canterbury, New Zealand

University of Melbourne

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This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 99310.

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AS/NZS 1170.1:2002

(Incorporating Amendment Nos 1 and 2)

Australian/New Zealand Standard™

Structural design actions

Part 1: Permanent, imposed and other actions

Originated in Australia as part of AS CA1—1933.

Originated in New Zealand as part of NZS 1900:1964.

Previous Australian editions AS 1170.1—1989 and AS 2867—1986.

Previous New Zealand edition NZS 4203:1992.

AS 1170.1—1989, AS 2867—1986 and NZS 4203:1992 jointly revised, amalgamated and redesignated in part as AS/NZS 1170.1:2002.

Reissued incorporating Amendment No. 1 (April 2005).

Reissued incorporating Amendment No. 2 (January 2009).

COPYRIGHT

© Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand

All rights are reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without the written permission of the publisher.

Jointly published by Standards Australia, GPO Box 476, Sydney, NSW 2001 and Standards New Zealand, Private Bag 2439, Wellington 6020

ISBN 0 7337 4471 0

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee BD-006, General Design Requirements and Loading on Structures, to supersede, in part, AS 1170.1—1989, Minimum design loads on structures, Part 1: Dead and live loads, and in part NZS 4203:1992, Code of practice for general structural design and design loadings for buildings and, in part, AS 2867—1986, Farm structures—General requirements for structural design.

This Standard incorporates Amendments No. 1 (April 2005) and Amendment No. 2 (January 2009). The changes required by the Amendments are indicated in the text by a marginal bar and amendment number against the clause, note, table, figure, or part thereof affected.

This Standard is published as a joint Standard (as are also AS/NZS 1170.0 and AS/NZS 1170.2) and it is intended that it is suitable for use in New Zealand as well as in Australia. However, NZS 4203, General structural design and design loadings for buildings remains current in New Zealand until the publication of all parts (including Part 4: Earthquake action) and for a transition period afterwards.

This Standard will be referenced in the Building Code of Australia by way of BCA Amendment 11 to be Published on 1 July 2002, thereby superseding the previous edition, AS 1170.1—1989, which will be withdrawn 12 months from the date of publication of this Edition.

The objective of this Standard is to provide designers of structures with values representing the permanent actions, likely actions imposed due to use and occupancy, and other actions appropriate to the type of structure for use in structural design.

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This Standard is Part 1 of the 1170 series Structural design actions, which comprises the following parts, each of which has an accompanying Commentary published as a Supplement:

AS/NZS
1170.0	Part 0:	General principles
1170.1	Part 1:	Permanent, imposed and other actions
1170.2	Part 2:	Wind actions
1170.3	Part 3:	Snow and ice actions
AS
1170.4	Part 4:	Earthquake loads
NZS
1170.5	Part 5:	Earthquake actions – New Zealand

The Commentary to this Standard is AS/NZS 1170.1 Supp 1, Structural design actions—Permanent, imposed and other actions—Commentary (Supplement to AS/NZS 1170.1).

This Standard is not equivalent to ISO 9194:1987, Bases for design of structures—Actions due to the self-weight of structures, non-structural elements and stored materials—Density. However, it does conform to that Standard (which states ‘Each country in its relevant standards should use its traditional values which are in the indicated range’). Extracts from the data given in ISO 9194 are provided in the Commentary to this Standard.

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This Standard is not equivalent to ISO 2103:1986, Loads due to use and occupancy in residential and public buildings or to ISO 2633:1974, Determination of imposed floor loads in production buildings and warehouses. The philosophy of imposed actions in this Standard is based on ISO 2103 and ISO 2633. ISO 2103 states that the values it gives are the lowest values given in the National Standards that were considered. It is not used in Europe or North America. This Standard gives values that are either equivalent to or greater than those in ISO 2103. This Standard does conform to ISO 2633 for all values except for the distributed load for parking, which is given as 3.0 kPa in ISO 2633. This higher value is not used in Europe or North America.

This edition incorporates the following principal changes from the previous edition:

(a) Dead and live loads for Australia and New Zealand have been included.

(b) Load combinations and other general reliability clauses have been removed to the new Standard AS/NZS 1170.0, General principles.

(c) The information on movement effects has been included in AS/NZS 1170.0 Supp 1, Commentary on General principles.

(d) Permanent and imposed loads from AS 2867, Farm structures—General requirements for structural design, have been included.

(e) The provision for occasional loading of 4.5 kN for roof trusses or roof structures in industrial or commercial buildings has been deleted.

The term ‘normative’ has been used in this Standard to define the application of the appendix to which it applies. A ‘normative’ appendix is an integral part of a Standard.

Statements expressed in mandatory terms in notes to tables are deemed to be an integral part of this Standard.

Notes to the text contain information and guidance and are not considered to be an integral part of the Standard.

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CONTENTS

	Page
SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL
1.1 SCOPE	5
1.2 APPLICATION	5
1.3 DETERMINATION OF DESIGN ACTIONS	5
1.4 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS	5
1.5 DEFINITIONS	6
1.6 NOTATION	6
SECTION 2 PERMANENT ACTIONS
2.1 GENERAL	7
2.2 CALCULATION OF SELF-WEIGHT	7
2.3 PROVISION FOR PARTITIONS	7
2.4 REMOVABLE ITEMS	7
SECTION 3 IMPOSED ACTIONS
3.1 GENERAL	8
3.2 CONCENTRATED ACTIONS	8
3.3 PARTIAL LOAD	8
3.4 FLOORS	8
3.5 ROOF AND SUPPORTING ELEMENTS	12
3.6 BARRIERS	13
3.7 ACTIONS FROM INSTALLED CRANES, HOISTS, LIFTS AND MACHINERY	15
3.8 CAR PARKS	16
3.9 GRANDSTANDS	17
SECTION 4 LIQUID PRESSURE, GROUND WATER, RAINWATER PONDING AND EARTH PRESSURE
4.1 GENERAL	18
4.2 LIQUID PRESSURE	18
4.3 GROUND WATER	18
4.4 RAINWATER PONDING	18
4.5 EARTH PRESSURE	18
APPENDICES
A UNIT WEIGHTS OF MATERIALS	19
B OTHER IMPOSED ACTIONS	22

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