Design of Reinforced Masonry Structures

THIS BOOK IS VERY INFORMATIVE AND PRESENTS VERY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES FOR WIND LOADS AND SYSMIC LOADS SO FAR IS WHAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO CHECK.

This is a very good book. Well organized, sufficient in depth discussion for a practical book, covers important subjects , and comes with several examples in each section along with the referred masonry code clause . While it is a good reference for practical engineers, it can also be useful for graduate students, a possibility the senior undergraduate students who are interested in this subject.Also the author provides a comprehensive coverage of required material for those engineers who plan to pass the professional exam.The only negative points are: as a practical reference, the presentation and indeed the number of detailing is not enough. Detailing is a very important part of masonry design which is not covered sufficiently in this book.The second negative point is lack of enough explanation and design example for masonry parts which are known as architectural elements. These elements are not review well.

Is Ok

I am very happy with my purchase.

good technical book

This book can be informative as far as understanding general concepts of masonry design. HOWEVER, once you start solving problems, you wouldn't believe how many errors this book has. There are TONS of errors in almost ALL examples. I never encountered a book that has this many errors. Examples have tons of errors in notations, numbers, and equations. Some errors are so ridiculous as to question if the author even understands basic math. Some errors make me wonder if ANYONE ever proofread this book. Even my professor realizes now that the book has tons of errors. Because there were so many errors, I had no choice but to start writing in the book to correct mistakes.THIS IS THE WORST TEXTBOOK I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED UNDER BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES.

I am a Civil Engineer with experience in design and construction of masonry structures. This book ilustrates in a thorough way how to design with the state-limit strength method (in opposite to the traditional Allowed Stress Design).It has plenty of design examples and it illustrates the design of walls, beams, columns (masonry columns), etc.This is a must be for a structural designer.

This book was my first experience with Masonry design. This book covers a lot of general topics as well as some engineering discussion. While there is an adequate number of worked out design/analysis examples there was not as many as I had hoped to see. This is a good book for a beginning engineer in structures (like me) but has very little to offer an engineer with masonry experience.The large appendix is very useful as a refernce for many items (i.e. Wind Load).

This is a decent book. So far we don’t have many books that deal with masonry design when compared to other construction materials.