Masonry design aids 1

[jeffandmike]

I am sitting for the CA structural exam in October and in need of some masonry design aids. Specifically, I am looking for tables of rho versus j / k.

I am aware that the "Reinforced Masonry Engineering Handbook" by Amrhein has tables such as these (I do not own this book). I am also aware of the table in the back of the "Structural Engineering Reference Manual" by Williams (I do own this book, but it only has a single table that tabulates rho*n versus k). I recently purchased the "Masonry Designers' Guide, 4th Ed" but it appears to be lacking these tables.

I have already shelled out so much for all of the required references and a review course for the exam that I would really like to find free tables posted somewhere.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[F1955]

Check out Design of Masonry Styructures by CMA of CA & NV

 

[Lutfi]

Look for the army desing manual for masonry. You should be able to find it on the internet or the US army COE web site.

Regards,
Lutfi

 

[STR04]

Here's one.

http://www.ccb.org/docs/COETM/5_809_3.pdf

 

[SacreBleu]

Why do you need a table? Ever since calculators became available, it has been a simple matter to do the formula.

 

[jeffandmike]

Thanks everyone for your help.

This morning I actually found an old copy of the "Design of Masonry Structures" publication that F1995 was referring to. It had a table in there that I could work with.

SacreBleu, you're correct. It is a simple formula. From what I've learned in discussions with others who have taken this exam, you need to be able to very quickly find the information you need (or, better yet, know it off the top of your head). You don't have time to do a whole lot of thinking.

The current list of allowed calculators is so restrictive that programming in any equations seems to be out of the question. For me, these types of problems (masonry, flexure) can be solved very quickly by using a table to look up j, k and rho.

 

[SacreBleu]

jeffandmike, correct, but what I meant is - you can write the formula on a summary sheet or put a tab on a book page so you can find it, then punch it out on a non-programmable calculator.