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 ...

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

This brick and masonry course discusses the general concepts of masonry bearing wall design, including structural systems and empirical and analytical design. After taking this two-hour course, you ...

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, ...

Across the country, conversations about school safety often focus on policies, surveillance technology and emergency ...

How officials in Portland, Oregon, have gone about treating the city’s sizable stock of earthquake-vulnerable unreinforced masonry buildings—roughly 1,600 of them in total including churches, ...