Masonry Design 2

[KootK]

What is the best masonry design handbook to get in the US. I have a good Canadian book but, since I'm working in Wisconsin now, the metric design aids are not very useful to me. Suggestions???

 

[DaveVikingPE]

Here is a pretty good manual: "Masonry Structural Design for Buildings."

Avaiolable from the US Army Corps of Engineers' publications website:

http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/armytm/tm5-809-3/.

 

[JAE]

Two books are referenced a lot here in the US:

"Reinforced Masonry Engineering Handbook", Fifth Edition, James E. Amrhein, published by the Masonry Institute of America, Los Angeles, CA.

"Masonry Designers Guide", ACI International,

http://www.aci-int.org

The Amrhein book is very helpful but the 5th edition had lots of errors in the sample calculations.