Different Types of Walls

There are various types of walls.

1. Load Bearing Wall

The wall is designed to carry on imposed the vertical load addition with its own weight together for any load known as the load-bearing wall.

2. Partition Wall

The partition wall is an interior non-load bearing wall. The height of the partition wall is one storey or part of one story. The use of the partition wall is to divide larger space into smaller spaces.

3. Panel Wall

This is an exterior non-load-bearing wall framed construction. This is totally supported at each storey but subjected to lateral loads.

4. Cavity Wall

The wall has two leaves and each leaf is built of masonry units and separated by a cavity and tied together with metal ties or bonding units to ensure that two leaves act as one structural unit. There is space between the leaves in left as a continuous cavity or filled with non-load bearing insulating and waterproofing material.

5. Faced Wall

This is the wall facing and backing of two different materials are bonded together for ensuring common action under load.

6. Veneered Wall

This is the wall where facing is attached to the backing but it is not bonded as resulted in a common action under load.