What are the functions of earth retaining walls, boundary walls, load-bearing walls, and non-load-bearing walls?
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What are the functions of earth retaining walls, boundary walls, load-bearing walls, and non-load-bearing walls?
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Functions: Earth Retaining Wall: Resist lateral pressure due to any material hold back by the wall. Used to retain soil, resist soil to flow in slopes, provides strong and stiff structure. Boundary wall: This type of wall used to protect home, gardens or any construction from surrounding hazards(likRead more
Functions:
- Earth Retaining Wall: Resist lateral pressure due to any material hold back by the wall. Used to retain soil, resist soil to flow in slopes, provides strong and stiff structure.
- Boundary wall: This type of wall used to protect home, gardens or any construction from surrounding hazards(like animals, theifs etc). This also provides to maintain privacy to the building.
- Load Bearing Wall: As the name suggests, it is used to bear loads from the upper structure and transfer to lower structure (i.e beam, slab, column and foundation).These walls used in load-bearing structures.
- Non Load bearing wall: It is simply a partition wall, used to maintain privacy between rooms and blocks. It does not take any load. Partition walls may be constructed after construction according to the demand of the owner
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