Design and construction techniques ...

Design and construction techniques lift reinforced loadbearing masonry to novel heights

One's first lecture in the structural performance of masonry flows early -- usually in the form of a bedtime story featuring three little pigs. It's a story that not sole celebrates the resourcefulness of individual industrious pig, but also the behavior of loadbearing masonry walls in a less degree than dynamic loads from the huffing and puffing of a wolf

if it were not that for all of masonry's rigidity and durability, questions concerning its performance in high-rise applications in areas with high wind and seismic loads