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 ...

A one-story masonry structure survived two days of intense earthquake jolts after engineering researchers put it to the test. A one-story masonry structure survived two days of intense earthquake ...

What will concrete masonry structures look like in the future? That’s a question for Khaled Galal, professor and associate chair of Concordia’s Department of Building, Civil and Environmental ...

M R. WEGMANN'S treatise has been before the public for so long that we imagine its general features will be more or less familiar to all who are engaged in the domain of waterworks engineering. The ...

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 ...

A defining feature of the masonry design is clean, uninterrupted surfaces, constructed with no brick cuts except at mitered ...

Very few people have died during an earthquake in Canada in modern history. Compared to the rest of the world, the country is not thought of as particularly seismically active. One big exception to ...

When we are discussing the definition of “structure”, the term varies within different disciplines. In the context of the built environment, "structure" refers to anything that is constructed or built ...