Check out "Historic Building Construction" by Donald Friedman. It's available on Amazon. It's a great reference for archaic building materials. I'm pretty sure he talks about the allowable bearing stress for brick masonry and sites references.
It's been awhile, but I think I've always used 100...
stkyle- There is a really good way as a young engineer to get into an Air Force career. It's called the Palace Aquire program, and you basically do 2-3 years of "internship", but you get paid the whole time. They just send you to a bunch of training and at the end of the program you get a...
I am a civilian working for the Air Force (structural engineer), and I love it. I spent 10 years in private industry and I was able to make the transition to civil service. Active duty engineers rotate out every 3 years, so if you have a really short attention span, that's a good way to go...