How to design/analyze common brick...

[faromic80]

The area in which I live and work has a a decent amount of common brick construction...common brick with bonded headers every 6 courses typically. I can't find any information on how to analyze this type of masonry construction for lateral and vertical loads. Does anyone know of any resources for common brick? I am completely clueless about it.

 

[concretemasonry]

Probably this is the best site for the brick industry - bia.org.

With the type of contruction you described, your concerns are more in the area of details, specifications and codes. They have very good information.