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If you check structural desing programs you will fine the following:
Load Patterns:
Dead Loads : Own Weight, Finishing, Walls and Fixed Mechanical Machines including its curbs.
Live Loads : any moving loads including furnitur (refer to ASCE Code Table 4-1)You can seperate the above loads to many sub-category when you modeling the structure, so it will be easy to control.
Example:- Dead Load (OW Load, SIDL Load, Wall Load ----etc)
