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CAESAR II Users Guide (2019 Service Pack 1)

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Specifies the limit on the allowed variation between the hot and cold hanger loads. Type the value as a percentage. For example, type twenty five percent as 25.0.

If this value is not specified, the only limit on load variation is that inherent in the spring table. This is approximately 100% when the hot load is smaller than the cold load and 50% when the hot load is larger than the cold load. Hot loads are smaller than cold loads whenever the operating displacement in the Y direction is positive. The default value for the load variation is 25%.

The Allowable Load Variation value is the percentage variation from the hot load:

or as may be more familiar:

For a cold load design, the denominator is Cold Load.