Talk:Braced wall line

Braced Wall Line?

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 agree with Spindustrious, that the article "shear wall" should be created, instead of being redirected here. By all means this article, "braced wall line", can coexist with the new "shear wall" article, but it should play a diminuitve role to "shear wall".

The braced wall line term may be used in the IBC, but I'm a civil engineering student now and have, like Spindustrious, never heard of 'braced wall line'. Over the next 50 years I'll be using 'shear wall', like everyone else has been doing in recent history. Wikipedia should follow this popular trend and use 'shear wall'. --Commander Keane 09:46, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Braced wall lines & braced wall panels are the "carpenters" method of designing a shear resisting system as outlined by 2320 of the UBC & 2308 of the IBC. By following the requirements of braced wall lines and panels Non-Engineering & Non-Architectural entities can create a code complying design for conventional light wood frame construction. (Average Everyday Houses) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.106.53.146 (talk) 22:42, 29 May 2008 (UTC)