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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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