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.
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.
A curtain wall of standard modular clay units spans 20 ft between columns, and is simply supported at each column.
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Check the design of the panel wall of Sec. 5.1.3 for a wind load w of 20 lb/ft2, using PCL
Check the design of a two-wythe panel wall in which the outer wythe is modular clay units and the inner
Consider the simple structure of Fig. 5.21, the same one whose bearing walls have been designed previously in this book.
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Using strength design, compute the design tensile capacity of a 1/2-in. diameter, A307 bent-bar anchor with a 1-in. hook, embedded
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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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