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.
Once we have developed the moment-axial force interaction diagram by the strength approach, the actual design simply consists of verifying […]
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Using strength design, compute the design shear capacity of a 1/2-in. diameter, A307 bent-bar anchor with a 1-in. hook, embedded
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Consider the masonry shear wall shown in Fig. 6.26. Design the wall. Unfactored in-plane lateral loads at each floor level
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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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Construct the moment-axial force interaction diagram by the strength approach for a nominal 8-in. CMU wall, fully grouted, with fm²
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