Building Mortar for Low Rise Housing – Recommendations, Problems and Solutions
Author Professor Geoff Edgell BSc PhD CEng MICE FBMS and B A Haseltine BSc FCGI DIC FICE FIStructE FConsE Hon FBMS
Masonry design for disproportionate collapse requirements
Introduction Revised Building Regulations for England & Wales, related, in part, to the structural design of buildings to resist accidental damage, have recently been published together with the relevant Approved […]
Eurocode for Masonry, ENV 1996-1-1: Guidance and worked examples.
ISSN 1460-6909, Special Publication No. 1, 1997 British Masonry Society Eurocode for Masonry, ENV 1996-1-1: Guidance and worked examples.
Building Regulations – Part E testing available from CERAM Building Technology
CERAM Building Technology (CBT), part of CERAM, has set up a specialist testing facility to help designers, builders and building product manufacturers ensure that their products and developments meet the […]
CEN Standards – advance warning copy of the BS EN implementation
The documents listed below are now available as an advance warning copy of the BS EN implementation. Customers purchasing ratified text documents will automatically receive a copy of the official […]
British Standards – Masonry & building regulations
The following standards of interest to readers have now been published, and are available from BSI: The following standards of interest to readers have now been published, and are available […]
Eurocodes – Companion Documents
Drafts of these documents were presented at a workshop at the Institution of Structural Engineers on 7 July 2004. For further information on implementing the Eurocodes go to: www.odpm.gov.uk and […]
Guide to the Structural Eurocodes for Students of Structural Design
A new guide has been launched by BSI to introduce all students of civil engineering, structural engineering and structural design to the Structural Eurocodes. This publication will aid undergraduates in […]
Testing of Ceramics in Construction Professor Geoff Edgell
An authoritative account of the test methods for ceramic products used in construction. Edited by Professor Geoff Edgell Head, Ceram Building Technology, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Visiting Professor , School of Civil […]
Traditional Buildings of Britain – an introduction to Vernacular Architecture and its Revival by R.W. Brunskill.
Retitled paperback edition by Cassell in association with Peter Crawley, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd. Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2 0BB. August 2004. 207 pages. Price […]
Transport of pore fluid in plastered brick masonry regarding long-term rising damp
Author KAMIŃSKI, KRZYSZTOF1 Abstract An extensive research program followed in order to find out whether pore fluid that accumulates in masonry as a result of hygroscopic sorption shows a tendency […]
Frame Action in Masonry Structures: An Experimental Investigation
Author J. D. STOKLE and A. J. BELL UMIST, Manchester Abstract The work was undertaken to investigate the extern of frame-action in structures of plain masonry walls and reinforced concrete […]