QUESTION: What design assistance to you have for designing Concrete Masonry walls without control joints?
SE Masonry Insight Guidance for masonry control joints can be found in NCMA TEK 10-3. This guide outlines an engineering approach to controlling cracking in masonry walls. The guide covers BOTH Methods: 1. use minimal reinforcement and control joints AND 2. use horizontal reinforcement only Obviously the latter requires more reinforcement. Method 1 would result […]