CIVE 5200
Masonry Behaviour and Design
Properties of masonry materials and assemblages. Behaviour and design of walls, columns and lintels. Treatment of specialized design and construction topics. Design of lowrise and highrise structures. Discussion of masonry problems. Emphasis on a practice-oriented approach.
2026
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
- Brick Veneer and -Masonry components of the building envelope, rain screen walls
- Cavity Walls wall detailing, shelf angles, building science (time permitting)
- Advanced Topics in -Design of shear walls for enhanced seismic ductility
- Seismic Behaviour
- Required Texts
- available soon for pickup.
- text is bundled with the textbook
Readings
- Masonry Structures: Behaviour and Design (2nd Canadian Edition), R.G. Drysdale, B.R.
- Banting, Canada Masonry Design Centre, 769pp. This text ($225 retail value) has been generously donated by the Canada Masonry Design Centre (CMDC). Hard copies will be
- CSA S304-19: Design of Masonry Structures, Canadian Standards Association, 126pp. This text is bundled with the textbook
Prerequisites & course information
Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as CIVE 4403 , for which additional credit is precluded.