Masonry

The role of bond patterns and their implications for masonry design are explored.

Click here to view the article with images in the digital flipbook. Although reinforced hollow clay masonry (RHCM) represents a small portion of structural masonry design in the United States and Canada, RHCM has high strength which makes it very […]

Change is hard. People resist it. It’s easy just to keep going down the known path. I ask that you humor me by reading this article with an open mind. The Path That Is Known For years, I have listened […]

Many brick-clad buildings constructed from the 1950s through the 1970s employ an early version of cavity wall construction that looks like contemporary veneer wall construction from the outside but has different structural behavior. Repairs and modifications to such cavity walls […]

The 2022 TMS 402 Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures added Appendix D for glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforced masonry. GFRP reinforcement is non-corrosive, non-conductive, and not thermally conductive, so there is no thermal bridging. Due to these properties, […]

6-inch CMU: Masonry’s Weight Loss Plan Philippe Ledent, P.E., S.E. 2022-05-01 7:25:00 In terms of structural concrete masonry unit (CMU) construction, the predominant unit sizes are nominally 8-inch and 12-inch-wide units. However, with rising material costs, 6-inch-wide units are ideal […]