About the author  ⁄ Thomas Young, P.E.

Thomas Young is the Executive Director of the Northwest Concrete Masonry Association located in Mill Creek, WA. Young is a Fellow of The Masonry Society and co-chair of the Structural Design Task Group of the Masonry Alliance for Codes and Standards. He may be reached at tcyoung@nwcma.org.

Transverse (Confinement) Reinforcement

Most designers who engineer reinforced masonry know that code provisions for lap splice lengths have been evolving over the past few code editions. A newer confinement-steel option is available that has the potential to significantly reduce the lap splice lengths, especially for larger diameter bars, through confinement of the structural reinforcement. …

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May, 2018 By and In Structural Design Comments 0
STRUCTURE magazine