Interior Door live load 1

[DFLewis]

I was wondering if there was an interior door design criteria out there specifically pertaining to live loads. IBC and ASCE don't seem to give much guidance unless I'm just looking in the wrong areas.

We have a larger steel framed door, 14'x7', ornamental, used to conceal a maintenance closet. We've designed for dead loads and have ran some initial live load numbers (such as a 200 lbf point load while latched) but wondering if there were any other suggestions/good engineering practices out there.

Thanks,

DFLewis

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[MiketheEngineer]

IBC says something about 5 psf interior "wind" loads. Also, the 200 lb side point load kind of matches the OSHA & IBC guardrail loads. I prefer 250 - people are much bigger these days.