Retrofit Lintels in Existing Masonry Buildings 1

[SMAJ]

Are there any good references for best practice guidelines for lintel design and especially detailing for existing structures?

 

[asixth]

I asked a similar question about a year ago now. Most masonry design manuals will have lintel design section but not a retrofit lintel example. The following link from pdhonline gives an example of how to retrofit a lintel. If the opening is small, I typically specify saw cutting the bed joint so and angle can be installed and anchor fix either side of the opening.

http://www.pdhcenter.com/courses/s126/s126.htm

The example I had was a particularly large opening which was core-filled every second course. We found which courses were cored-filled and anchored the channel into those cores.

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