What is shear wall?

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rzaman68

  • Jan 25th, 2009
 

Shear walls withstand the lateral and direct loads of a building such as live, dead and earthquake loads. It acts like columns of a building. The walls of staircases, elevators used to be shear walls in order to minimize the columns.

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KARTHIGA

  • Oct 9th, 2011
 

shear wall is used to resist wind loads. This is often used in lifts

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