CIVE 4403
Masonry Design
Introduction to structural design in masonry. Properties of masonry materials and assemblages. Behaviour and design of beams, walls and columns. Selected topics including veneer wall systems, differential movement, workmanship, specifications, inspection, maintenance and repair. Lowrise and highrise building design.
2024
Topics
- Structural design requirements, building loads, building layout
- Material Properties -Concrete and clay masonry units, mortar, grout, reinforcement
- Properties of masonry assemblages
- Beams and Lintels -Singly and doubly-reinforced beams, deflections, shear, splices
- and development
- Columns -Design of masonry columns, pilasters
- Slenderness effects, biaxial bending.
- Loadbearing Walls -Design of unreinforced walls and reinforced walls under axial load
- combined axial load and bending. Slenderness effects
- Shear Walls -Failure modes, distribution of lateral loads to walls, wall rigidity
- flexural and shear design, seismic considerations
- Brick Veneer and -Masonry components of the building envelope, design of rain
- Cavity Walls screen walls, wall detailing, shelf angles, building science
- Design of Low-Rise -Bringing it all together: design of a low-rise industrial building
- Masonry Buildings
- Required Texts
- soon.
- This text is available for free download from Carleton’s Techstreet
Readings
- Masonry Structures: Behaviour and Design (2nd Canadian Edition), R.G. Drysdale, B.R. Banting, Canada Masonry Design Centre, 769pp. This text has been generously
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): CIVE 3204 , CIVE 3206 . Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as CIVE 5200 , for which additional credit is precluded. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- CIVE 4403 ↗2024