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The load bearing masonry Structure are constructed with help of brick , concrete bricks etc.
The Foundation of Load bearing Structure are made with Rubble Masonry or With Stone which bear all
load coming from the Wall.
We can see here the main element is The wall which is Actually load carrying member too.
And Problem is also that When tje wall collapse in any situation then whole structure will collapse.
To make load bearing Structure more stronger then we have to increase the wall thickness but it's reduce the
Room area.
Load Bearing Structure are not perform very well in earthquake but it doesn't mean all Load
Bearing Structure will collapse in future.
But the problem is labour work is increase and Material like brick is also required in Quantity.
FRAME STRUCTURE
In the Frame Structure the load carrying Element is The Beam and Column.
Now Beam is supporting to Slab so it take bending and shear of slab.
The beam is designed as flexure member because mainly beam has to bend under slab loading.
After this all load is Transferred to Column which take Compression Force.
Now Cloumn is supporting to beam and take the load of beam and transfer to the Foundation.
This Frame make structure Flexible and they have good results in Earthquake.
The brick don't take any type of load but it is used for cladding.
Sagar Singh Gupta, PG in Construction management and Civil Engineer with 5+ years of work Ex.
Written Feb 10, 2016
The other answers are well explained the facts and figures, here are something addition to those answers:
A load-bearing wall or bearing wall is a wall that bears a load resting upon it by conducting its weight to a
foundation structure. The materials most often used to construct load-bearing walls in large buildings are concrete,
block, or brick.
Frame structures are the structures having the combination of beam, column and slab to resist the lateral and gravity
loads. These structures are usually used to overcome the large moments developing due to the applied loading.
Gabled frames
Portal frames
Definition, Types of Frame Structures
See here on the above right is drawing load is transferred through wall which is load structure and on left hand drawing
load has been transferred through frame columns so its a Frame structure.
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Framed structure : load distribution - slabs to beams, beams to columns, columns to foundation.
Load bearing can be used for a single storied or G+1 storey building where as framed structure has no limit. It can be
designed as per the need. The cost of framed structure is expensive than load bearing structure, since in load bearning the
main component is brickwork but in framed structure is concreting.
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Parth Sarvaiya
Written Nov 24, 2015
The major difference between the two structures is the strength element.
Thus:
in frame structures, the strength elements are the pillars and the girders
in loadbearing masonry structures, the strength elements are the walls, while the tie-columns in the masonry
have the role of absorbing some of the seismic force
More precisely, in the case of loadbearing masonry structures, it is the bricks that carry the loads. This is the reason why
Code P100-1/2006 (the Romanian seismic design regulation) requires that the standardised compressive strength of the
masonry elements for loadbearing walls to be at least 7.5 N/mm2.
The higher the compressive strength of masonry elements, the higher the number of storeys a building can have.
Hope this helps:):)
A typical load bearing structure would be the beam and pillar system, onto which a frame structure (the stud system) can
be attached to form a wall and a frame to open a door in it. Neither the sheets of the wall nor the door bear any loads. The
pillars and beam system bear all loads.
In 1973-1974, at the request of one my professors at University of Roorkee, I worked on a project that he gave me as part of
my curriculum.
He wanted to settle the often asked question: How tall can you make a load bearing brick wall structure? One to two
stories is very common, with a 9" thick brick wall some venture up to three stories too, using 13" thick brick walls for the
lowermost storey when they are confident of the soil bearing capacity.
High strength "Engineering Bricks" with precise and consistent dimensions and with better compressive strength than the
bricks of "bazaar quality" were being aggressively advertised and the companies sales representatives came over to make a
presentation.
Not wanting to believe their claims blindly, my professor gave me all their technical brochures and asked me to work on
the project of verifying their claims.
I worked on it for a few months and my conclusion, purely from academic considerations was that you could theoretically
build up to to 8 storeys but practical construction difficulties will limit this to 6 storeys.
But the cost of these bricks was too high. (I don't remember the comparative costs between these so called "Engineering
Bricks" and the ordinary bricks commonly in use.
For this cost, a framed structure was stronger, and offered flexible floor plans which these new bricks could never offer.
Their plans did not take off. To the best of my knowledge load bearing brick walls are being used even today for buildings
at most two to three storeys tall and for greater heights RCC columns inter-connected at all floor levels with load bearing
beams and slabs are being used with non load bearing walls of brick or concrete masonry blocks.
These walls are removable, offering architects the convenience of varying floor plans using internal partition walls.
Disclaimer:
I have been out of touch with the Industry for a long time,
GV
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Gil Villamor
Written Dec 6, 2015
The basic difference between a load bearing structure and a frame structure :
1.) A load bearing structure is any structure that can bear loads with a specific bearing capacity. ex. load bearing
concrete wall.
2.) A frame structure is any load bearing or non-load bearing structure. ex. load bearing wall or non-load
bearing wall
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