Events Calendar
Strength Design of Walls for Axial Load and Out-Of-Plane Loads
During this session of Masonry Night School: Strength Design of Masonry, design of masonry walls loaded with out-of-plane loads and axial loads will be reviewed. Methods to consider secondary bending moments will be examined, including using P-delta provisions, and key points on interaction diagrams will be reviewed. Differences in the strength design provisions and allowable...
Strength Design of Walls for In-Plane Loads & Seismic Detailing
Shear walls are critical building elements to resist in-plane loads and are, for masonry, the seismic-force-resisting system. This session of Masonry Night School: Strength Design of Masonry will review strength design of shear walls, along with both seismic detailing requirements and minimum/maximum detailing requirements for such walls. Continuing Education: 1 AIA LU / 1 PDH...
Balanced Fire Safety Design & Resilient Masonry Fire Walls
This program reviews US fire statistics, the Balanced Fire Safety Design concept and the role that passive masonry firewalls play in it. Examples of how today’s building codes have eroded the Balanced Design Concept are shared to provide a better understanding of the crucial role fail-safe, passive masonry fire walls play in today’s fire safety...
2021 Annual Meeting – Nashville, TN
Millennium Maxwell House Hotel 2025 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN, United StatesThe 2021 Annual Meeting of The Masonry Society will be held October 13-16, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel The Masonry Society will hold several educational programs along with our committee meetings and fun social events. Specific details on activities will be added to this page as they become available. Please...
Existing Masonry Night School: Transitional Structures #1 – Review of Common Masonry Materials
During Existing Masonry Night School: Assessment, Maintenance, and Repair of Transitional Masonry Structures, instructors will discuss the most common issues in assessing, maintaining, and where needed, repairing masonry cladding systems constructed in North America between the 1880 and 1945. This session will review masonry materials commonly used in cladding systems between the 1880 and 1945...