Thanks for the responses. Appreciated.
I suppose this will sound like a setup or a troll question, but I did excavate my copy of Narendra Taly, Design of Reinforced Masonry Structures, 2001. It's not Amrhein.....
As I mentioned (somewhat), this is a set of hand-drawn proposed details from a masonry contractor for repair of a basement wall, i.e. partial replacement. Below grade residential, tuck under garage wall retaining soil. Non seismic. Above is a 5" concrete slab (a bit atypical for a kitchen, but there it is). Bottom of wall has/will have at least the 3.5" slab for a basement that is considered a restraint in the IRC. Design is being checked for 45 pcf effective fluid pressure which is the middle of the road in the IRC tables, and drawings will note. (30 pcf and 60 pcf being the other options), and like I said, the contractor has a wall reinforcing I'm checking which is a bit enthusiastic, which is fine. Once I am more familiar with their work and quality working on less reinforcing is a possible conversation down the road, if they install what I have on the drawings....
Anyway, the whole thing looks like it could be done under the prescriptive code, with a little help from the Lintel Design Guide by NCMA, but the contractor really wants stamped drawings, and the State I work in just pitched a bit of a fit regarding redlines (for an architect), and I'm intending to redraw what all needs to be redrawn, and, of course, do the necessary calculations.
So regarding the bond beam, here's what I found in Taly.
Taly said:
In retaining walls, bond beams can be used as an alternative to providing horizontal reinforcement to distribute stresses that occur because of expansion and contraction of the wall. Typically, a bond beam is provided at the to of the wall and at 16 in. on center below. For 8-in.-thick retaining walls, two #4 bars usually are provided in all bond beam courses. For 12-in.-thick retaining walls, two #5 bars are provided in the bond beam course at the top, and two #4 bars in the courses below. Retaining walls are discussed in chapter 8.
Admittedly, this is not a retaining wall, per se, as it's not free at the top, pinned at the bottom, but it's at least a source for the 2 #5 continuous I tend to show in masonry details. Taly likes to treat these separately as subterranean or basement masonry walls (i.e. partial height soil load, pinned at top, pinned at bottom)...
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk.