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IBC 2006 to Revert Back to Old Masonry Splices

Thread starter WillisV
Start date Aug 26, 2005

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Aug 26, 2005

WillisV

Structural

I have heard that due to tremendous outcry over the very large masonry rebar development lengths (especially for >#5 rebar) generated from the IBC 2000-2003 equations and the almost as large but different masonry development lengths in ACI 530-05, that the code committees are reconsidering and will go back to essentially 48db in the IBC 2006 code cycle.