ACI 530-11 Building Code Requirements and Specification for Masonry (2024)

Manual for the design of plain masonry in building structures to Eurocode 6 (Second edition) , 2018

A Eurocode Handbook publication on structural masonry to EC6 from the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Qwerty, 2010

India(NBC), a comprehensive building code, is a national instrument providing guidelines for regulating the building construction activities across the country. It serves as a model cede for adoption by all agencies involved in building construction works be they public works departments, other government construction departments, local bodies or private construction agencies. The code mainly contains administrative regulations, development control rules and general building requirements; fire safety requirements; stipulations regarding materials, structural design and construction (including safety); and building and plumbing services. The code was first published in 1970 at the instance of planning commission and then revised in 1 983. Thereafter three major amendments were issued, two in 1987 and the third in 1997. Considering a series of further developments in the field of building construction including the lessons learn in the aftermath of number of natural calamities like devastating earthquakes and super cyclones witnessed by the country, a project for comprehensive revision of NBC was taken up under the aegis of National Building Code Sectional Committee, CED 46 of BIS and its 1 8 expert panels; involving as many as 400 experts. As a culmination of the project, the revised NBC has now been brought out as National Building Code of India 2005 (NBC 2005). Provisions of National Building Code : (1) Inclusion of a complete philosophy and direction for successfully accomplishing the building projects through integrated multidisciplinary approach right through conceptual stage to planning, designing, construction, operation and maintenance stages. (2) A series of reforms in building permit process (3) Provisions to ensure and certification of safety of buildings against natural disaster by engineer and structural engineer. (4) Provisionfor two stage permit for high rise and special buildings. (5) Provision for periodic renewal certificate of occupied buildings from structural, fire and electrical safety point of view. (6) Provision for empowering engineers and architects for sanctioning plans of residential buildings up to 500 m2. (7) Inclusion of detailed town planning norms for various amenities such as educational facilities, medical facilities, distribution services, police, civil defense and home guards and fire services. (8) Revision of parking requirements for metro and mega cities. (9) Up-dation of special requirements for low income housing for urban areas. (10)Inclusion of special requirements for low income housing rural habitat planning.

Fire and Materials

The International Building Code (IBC) has now been adopted as the model design code for most states and territories of the United States of America. For Masonry design, the IBC references the Building Code Requirements and Specification for Masonry Structures (MSJC) for material properties, design procedures, specifications and quality control. Individual state codes then amend the two documents (IBC and MSJC) appropriately. In high seismic regions of the United States, hollow block of concrete masonry units (CMU) are the material of choice in masonry construction. The CMU’s are built using sand, pea gravel, cement and water. CMU is typically delivered to the job site as a individual units usually sixteen inches long, eight inches high and of thickness varying between six inches to twelve inches nominal dimensions as required. Building of a masonry system requires the use of mortar applied at the bed and head of the CMU blocks and grout to fill in the hollow voids in the CMU where s...

Malaysia JKR standard specification for building work

This standard covers the proper design and construction of concrete structures which form part of a nuclear power plant and which have nuclear safety related functions, but does not cover concrete reactor vessels and concrete containment structures (as defined by ACI-ASME Committee 359). The structures covered by the Code include concrete structures inside and outside the containment system. This Code may be referenced and applied subject to agreement between the Owner and the Regulatory Authority. The format of this Code is based on the " Building Code Requirement for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-95) " and incorporates recent revisions of that standard, except for Chapter 12, which is based on ACI 318-99.

Engineering, 2014

Structural Engineering International, 2012