Structural Masonry Detailing, Second Edition
Title: Structural Masonry Detailing, Second Edition
Authors: W G Curtin, G Shaw, J K Beck & G I Parkinson
OUT OF PRINT
ISBN: 0246118504
Summary
Clear, simple and accurate details are the only satisfactory means by which a detailer can communicate a designer’s intentions to a contractor. An excellent design can be ruined by poor details, and failure to pay attention to detailing has been one of the major causes of building failure over the last few decades. It is therefore vital for the designer to understand the importance and the techniques of good detailing.
The resurgence of interest in the structural applications of brickwork and blockwork has highlighted the shortage of experienced structural masonry detailers and of detailing information.
This major new handbook – a companion volume to Structural Masonry Designers’ Manual – brings together for the first time a comprehensive range of practical details, which have proved, over more than twenty years of application and refinement, to be simple and effective. Its use will therefore offer considerable savings in drawing office time and hence in the cost of preparing details and it will also reduce site errors and mistakes.
The manual includes common and new structural masonry forms, and each encompasses plain, reinforced and post-tensioned masonry techniques. The detailing principles and objectives which are applicable internationally, irrespective of the controlling code practices, and not merely to industrialised countries.