I am looking to use some hilti hy20 epoxy anchors into an 8" red brick wall to resist in-plane shear loads only. The problem is that the ICBO report(ER 4815) only gives values for anchors w/ 8" of embed. into brick walls with a minimum thickness of 13 inches!! What am I missing here...
I can't find any guidelines on how much CMU lintel depth you are allowed to consider for out of plane loads. Specifically, a wind load from a large window below. This will end up as a line load load at the bottom of the lintel. It doesn't seem like I'd be allowed to use, say 6 foot of depth to...