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THE WALLStudent: Ana Mirabent USBID: 08-10750

DEFINITION

Solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects a space in the open air. Wall

TYPES OF WALLSSupports the weight of floors and roofsLOAD BEARING WALLOnly supports its own weight NON-BEARING WALL

LOAD BEARING WALLProportional to the forces it has to resist iscan goUniform along the whole lengthTHICKNESSAccording to buttressingSTRENGHTThe number of openings that can be used determinesPLACEMENTdepends ofThe type of support

NON-BEARING WALLCHARACTERISTICSOnly appears in a construction where the loads are carried by other members, and usually have skeletal structures It rests or hangs upon members of the frameCan be built with traditional materials, light walls of glass, plastic, metal alloys, wood products, etcOffers greatly expanded opportunities for creative expression.

Brick wall

Stone wall

Wood wall

Plastic wall

Metal wall

Glass wall

OTHER TYPES OF WALLSBoundary wallsinclude privacy walls, boundary-marking walls on property, and town walls.Separation wallsdesigned to formally separate one population from another.provide a barrier to the movement of earth, stone or water.Retaining walls

Portable wallsOTHER TYPES OF WALLSused to take a large open space and effectively divide it into smaller rooms. Shared wallsseparate apartment or hotel rooms from each other.Physiological wallA wall can also refer to something that the human mind is blocking or hiding from memory but this is debatable.

BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallhttps://lie.asignaturas.usb.ve/pluginfile.php/6644/mod_resource/content/1/wall.pdf