BUFFALO, N.Y. – After an earthquake hit California in 1933, unreinforced masonry structures were banned. These types of structures, according to Andreas Stavridis, University at Buffalo assistant ...

Rising damp is a critical deterioration process in both historic and modern masonry structures, driven primarily by the capillary uptake of groundwater through porous building materials. This ...

Earthquakes and other stressors on buildings pose a threat to their structural integrity that endangers human life. It is effective to be able to calculate the behavior of buildings and test with ...

When designing a loadbearing masonry structure, certain rules of thumb can help building designers, owners and contractors estimate typical loads and sizes that walls and columns experience. Keeping ...

Keywords: Earthquakes, Unreinforced masonry, In-plane, Out-of-plane, Bidirectional loading, Experiment, Finite element, Interaction curves Abstract: Existing material models and numerical procedures ...

PCA's sixth edition of the "Concrete Masonry Handbook for Architects, Engineers, and Builders" highlights recent advancements in concrete masonry, enabling the design and construction of residential, ...

There is an increasing trend for structural engineers to limit their role to the design of key structural members (typically beams and columns) and not other structural aspects. This can be concerning ...

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