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Nature of loads

Two types of loads are concentrated loads and uniformly distributed loads (UDL).

Concentrated loads

A concentrated load (also called a point load) is a single force acting at a particular point on the structure. For example:

Uniformly distributed loads

A UDL is one that is evenly spread over an area or length of the structure. For example:

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