Bowed Terra Cotta Basement walls

[EngStuff]

I came across an old early 1900 home, The basement wall is made from Terra Cotta. (I have looked around and perhaps it's called "Structural Clay tile"?)

The issue is it's bowed inward. I'm not familiar with Terra Cotta basement foundation, especially bowed inward. I am looking for guidance online for that type of repair and could not find any. I did find a lot of helpful information about terra cotta walls, but nothing to do with repairing bowed Terra cotta walls.

I don't think i should use the same thought process of repairing bowed CMU walls.

any ideas or directions that i could be led to?

 

[masonrygeek]

You could use the same process as a CMU wall, but a structural clay tile wall will not have any reinforcing it in. Go to the Building Technology Heritage Library and find this book:

https://archive.org/details/BrickAndTileEngineering

for more info on tile design.