dead load

These half-open spandrels were meant to further relieve the dead load on the bridge.

This likely not an ascetic choice, but done as part of an overall strategy to minimize dead load.

For earthquake loads, about a third of the dead load of the building will be designed.

Compression testing can also involve a superimposed dead load to a test package.

Unless the wretched thing recovered, they would be carrying a practically dead load of German insurance.

After a few steps he found his left leg too heavy to lift, and dragged the dead load through the soft sand.

However, their approach not only failed to provide additional structural capacity, it also inadvertently introduced a new and significant dead load at the weakened area.

If you add another hundred pounds in dead load, you have to pay for it in fuel.

The success of the trial with the dead load convinced me.

She has it most every day - dead loads of it.