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Scope For Future Shear Wall

Shear walls are structures used to resist lateral loads such as winds and earthquakes. They are quick to construct using simple forms and requiring few skilled laborers. Shear walls are also used for defensive purposes, as companies are using shear wall technology to rapidly construct housing and facilities for paramilitary forces. Shear walls work by bracing panels to counter the effects of lateral loads on a building.

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Scope For Future Shear Wall

Shear walls are structures used to resist lateral loads such as winds and earthquakes. They are quick to construct using simple forms and requiring few skilled laborers. Shear walls are also used for defensive purposes, as companies are using shear wall technology to rapidly construct housing and facilities for paramilitary forces. Shear walls work by bracing panels to counter the effects of lateral loads on a building.

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SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK

Shear walls are considered to be a gift to the future construction industry.


Scope of shear walls in construction field is immense. Its since their arrival in
market there topic was always a topic of interest. Shear walls are the
structures usually build to balance lateral loads acting on the structure.
Where the lateral loads are most predominantly wind and earth quake loads.
And predominantly earthquake loads are more intense in their effect on the
building structures. Earthquakes are becoming more intense due to the key
reason that is ground water depletion. Hence in order to overcome the
diverse effects of earthquake it is always best to save ourselves from future
disasters.
Shear walls are quick in construction, as the walls doesnt need any special
brick arrangement or plastering they are very quick in their construction. It
just requires an effective form work and very few skilled labour. It was
estimated that a 20 floors building can be built within six months which is
most astonishing.
Not only for the quickness in its work and resistance to earthquakes, shear
walls are also built for defence purpose. Presently The Hindustan Prefab
Limited (HPL) is executing various relocatable prefab structures for
paramilitary forces especially for the CRPF in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh and Bihar among others. We are using Shear Wall technology
with thermal curing a fast track technology for KMDA for construction of
houses in Kolkata, chairman and managing director HPL Jaiveer Srivastava
said.

In structural engineering, a shear wall is a wall composed of braced panels
to counter the effects of lateral load like wind and seismic acting on a
structure. Under several building codes including the International Building
Code and Uniform Building Code all exterior wall lines in wood or steel frame
construction are braced. Plywood is the conventional material used in the
construction of shear walls, but with advances in technology and modern
building methods, there are other prefabricated options which have made it
possible to inject shear assemblies into narrow walls that fall at either side of
an opening in a shear wall. Sheet steel and steel-backed shear panels in the
place of structural plywood in shear walls have proved to be far stronger in
seismic resistance.

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