Building Construction and Fire
This is the seventh of a series of articles on building construction and its effect on fire fighting operations and planning.
Walls transmit to the ground the compressive forces applied along the top. A wall resembles a wide slender column. The wall may also be required to resist flexural forces, as does a beam. Wind load is an example of flexural force when the wind is received on the flat surface of a wall.
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