This book was developed from a set of masonry course notes used for many years in a semester-long, undergraduate and graduate course in masonry engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. It covers the design of masonry structures using the 2009 International Building Code, the 2008 Masonry Standards Joint Committee Code and Specification, and other documents referenced by those standards. The book is intended for an undergraduate or a graduate course in masonry as part of a civil engineering or architectural engineering curriculum. It can also be used for self-study and continuing education by practicing engineers. It emphasizes the strength design of masonry, and also includes allowable-stress design.
In the previous examples, we have studied the behavior of bearing walls of unreinforced masonry, idealized as a series of […]
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Examples of construction details for masonry structures requiring little calculation are given in the sections and figures below. These details
Consider the structure shown in Fig. 5.24. The wall is identical to that addressed in the previous examples, with the
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The bearing wall shown in Fig. 5.12 has an unfactored, concentric axial load of 1050 lb/ft. Using hollow concrete masonry units
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Now consider the same bearing wall of the previous example, but make the gravity load eccentric. As before, suppose that
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uniformly distributed wind load of 25 lb/ft2. The wall is as shown in Fig. 5.15. At each horizontal plane through the wall,
Check the design of the panel wall shown in Fig. 5.4, for a wind load w of 20 lb/ft2, using PCL
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Check the design of the panel wall of the example of Sec. 5.1.3 for a wind load w of 20
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ding only (mortar on the face shells of the units only). The panel wall will be designed as unreinforced masonry.