ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the design of walls of types, such as load-bearing walls, panel walls, and basement walls or retaining walls. BS8110 defines a braced wall as one where the lateral stability of the entire structure at right angles to the plane of the wall being considered is provided by walls which are arranged to resist all the forces acting in that direction. Where the wind or some other horizontal load is resisted by the combined action of several walls, it is suggested that the total load is divided in proportion to the relative stiffness of each wall. In the case of plain concrete walls, however, the resulting eccentricity in any individual wall must not exceed one-third of the wall length. For braced walls, the resulting eccentricity may be evaluated on the assumption that the eccentricities of all the vertical loads above that point are zero.
