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CHAPTER 16STRUCTURAL DESIGNSECTION provisions of this CHAPTER shall govern thestructural DESIGN of buildings, structures and portions thereofregulated by this 1602DEFINITIONS AND following words and terms shall, forthe purposes of this CHAPTER , have the meanings shown STRESS method of proportion-ing STRUCTURAL members, such that elastically computed stressesproduced in the members by nominal loads do not exceed spec-ified allowable stresses (also called working stress DESIGN ).BALCONY, exterior floor projecting fromand supported by a structure without additional weight of materials of constructionincorporated into the building, including but not limited towalls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairways, built-in partitions, fin-ishes, cladding and other similarly incorporated architecturaland STRUCTURAL items, and the weight of fixed service equipment,such as cranes, plumbing stacks and risers, electrical feeders,heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems and firesprinkler exterior floor supported on at least two opposingsides by an adjacent structure, and/or posts, piers or other inde-pendent product of the nominal strengthand a resistance factor (or strength reduction factor).

mental effects, differential movement and restrained dimen-sional changes. Permanent loads are those loads in which variations over time are rare or of small magnitude, such as

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