Talk:Structural support

Latest comment: 4 months ago by Викидим in topic Two in one

Two in one edit

This article combines two related, but distinctly different notions into one:

  1. a support in the sense of structural analysis and
  2. a commonsense architectural support element

Examples of #2 that do not neatly fit into #1 are, say, generic "wall" and "column". They frequently serve as "supports" in architecture, but are near-impossible to pin into the proposed "roller, pinned, fixed, hanger and simple support" framework. The latter is the structural sense is not even a "support", but a "member".

The solution offered in some languages is to split the article into two (numbers correspond to the items above):

  1. ru:Опора (статика), de:Lager (Statik)
  2. ru:Опора, de:Stütze (Bauteil), fr:Étaiement (construction)

I propose to do the same here. As-is, the article is hard to comprehend: it starts describing #2 before going in detail into #1. Викидим (talk) 16:40, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply