I've never heard this term used to describe what I've always known as a shear wall. All of my references mentioned shear walls in their indices, but none mentioned braced walls. Since the ACI code speaks of structural walls, some of my concrete books reference that term...
Considering the article's predominant focus on timber frame construction (where this term is more intuitively meaningful), I'm inclined to think that a braced wall line is in fact a type of shear wall rather than an entirely equivalent concept.
Thus, I suggest we move the article to shear wall and offer a redirect from braced wall line. Any takers or critics?
-- Spindustrious 08:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The reason I wrote the article under Braced Wall Lines, and redirected from Shear Wall is because that is the term in vogue by the International Building Code or IBC. Since the IBC is predominantly becoming the code of choice in areas throughout North America (perhaps elsewhere I'm not sure) than it makes sense to use the terms that the most current code uses. I hoped to keep confusion to a minimum by using the redirects and stating they were the same concept in the article. SDG 16:37, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've never heard this term used to describe what I've always known as a shear wall. All of my references mentioned shear walls in their indices, but none mentioned braced walls. Since the ACI code speaks of structural walls, some of my concrete books reference that term...
Considering the article's predominant focus on timber frame construction (where this term is more intuitively meaningful), I'm inclined to think that a braced wall line is in fact a type of shear wall rather than an entirely equivalent concept.
Thus, I suggest we move the article to shear wall and offer a redirect from braced wall line. Any takers or critics?
-- Spindustrious 08:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The reason I wrote the article under Braced Wall Lines, and redirected from Shear Wall is because that is the term in vogue by the International Building Code or IBC. Since the IBC is predominantly becoming the code of choice in areas throughout North America (perhaps elsewhere I'm not sure) than it makes sense to use the terms that the most current code uses. I hoped to keep confusion to a minimum by using the redirects and stating they were the same concept in the article. SDG 16:37, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)