Post and lintel systems may be built on top of another to frame multistory buildings. Construction of this type is well suited to resist horizontal loads.
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Post and lintel system, in building construction is a system in which two upright members, the posts, hold up a third member, the lintel , laid horizontally across their top surfaces. The lintel is a simply supported beam on posts and it carries roof load. The posts are the vertical struts compressed by lintels.
Post and lintel system may be built one over another to frame multistory buildings; in this case lintels are supported by vertical columuns or wall of masonry as high as entire building. Construction of this type of multistory building cannot resist horizontal loads and easily damaged by hurricane and Earth quakes due to low bending resistance of stone and masonry due to more height , so that sagging will be more. So construction of this type buildings are not well suited to resist horizontal loads.
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