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Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

(OP)
Just looking for a good masonry design book.  I have some old stuff I've used, but I'd like to get more up-to-date.

Thanks!

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

Try the Masonry Designer's Guide, it has alot of good examples and includes code references.

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

swearingen,

Don't overlook the Masonry Tek Guides.  
Go to the National Concrete Masonry Association website:
http://www.ncma.org/

There is a link there to a masonry producer in each state that has a website where the Tek Guides can be found.

I've found these are also excellent resources.  Also, I agree with MotorCity's suggestion, that is an excellent book.

regards,


chichuck

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

MotorCity, I checked this thread just to see if someone recommended the Masonry Designer's Guide.  My old professor is heavily involved in making that document.  That being said, I hate that guide.  Generally, I find the examples too complex to be useful, at least for what I'm doing.  How about a simple lintel design example?  Nah, but there's one with torsion.

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

Engineered Masonry Design by Glanville, Hatzinikolas, and Ben-Omran is one of the better texts... although Canadian Code oriented, the theory is international...

Dik

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

I like Amrhein's book (the name escapes me).  Good examples, and a lot of charts.  That said, I still don't have one.  Go figure.

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

Sometimes you'll want to try the search feature of the site.

thread507-113569

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

Amrhein's book is very good but it will not be updated again and does use the IBC or ACI 530.  It is called Reinforced Masonry Design published by the Masonry Institute of American.

The other good text is Design of Reinforced Masonry Structures by Narendra Talvy by McGraw Hill.

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

Design of Reinforced Masonry Structures by Narendra Taly. Really thorough, includes relevant code (UBC 1997...) sections in the appendix.

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

I like Amrhein's book also.  agree that it's outdated code-wise, but so far I can still determine a design philosophy and go to the ACI 530 to complete the design.  Thanks to all for the other design references.  I will check those out.

RE: Recommendation for Masonry Design Book

I'm new in Masonry design and I've been unsing both:

1- Masonry Designer Guide
2- Reinfocing Masonry Engineering Handbook

but i found the second one is more practical to use.

Reinforced Masonry Engineering Handbook - James E. Amrhein ISBN: 0-8493-7551-7
ADCFL

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