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Pattern Number: 218

Pattern Title: Wall Membrane

Category: Construction

Sub-Category: Mark the column locations and erect the main frame

Up links: 206 Efficient Structure 213 Final Column Distribution 216 Box Columns

Horizontal links: 206 Efficient Structure 207 Good Materials 208 Gradual Stiffening

Down links: 213 Final Column Distribution 235 Soft Inside Walls 234 Lapped Outside Walls 248 Soft Tile and Brick

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Summaries of content, keywords and links generated by algorithms. Thank you smmry.com:

Summary 1: According to EFFICIENT STRUCTURE and FINAL COLUMN DISTRIBUTION, the wall is a compressive loadbearing membrane, "Stretched" between adjacent columns and continuous with them, the columns themselves placed at frequent intervals to act as stiffeners.

Summary 2: Build the wall as a membrane which connects the columns and door frames and windows frames and is, at least in part, continuous with them.

Summary 3: To build the wall, first put up an inner and an outer membrane, which can function as a finished surface; then pour the fill into the wall.

Summary 4: When walls are working like this, they are essentially structural membranes: they are continuous in two dimensions; together with stiffeners and columns they resist loads in compression; and they create a continuous rigid connection between columns, beams, and floors, both above and below, to help resist shear and bending.

Summary 5: By contrast, curtain walls and walls which are essentially "Infill," do not act as membranes.

Summary 6: The wall is built by fixing nailing blocks to the sides of columns..

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