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Design of unreinforced and reinforced bearing and non-bearing walls; shear wall analysis and design; system design; brick veneers; and construction aspects.

AE 402

To prepare students who elect this course to design masonry structures. Students will understand masonry wall systems and their application to meeting functional and structural requirements for appropriate building types.

1. Materials
2. Building code design approaches
3. Flexural analysis and design
4. Material fabrication exercise
5. Unreinforced non-bearing walls
6. Reinforced non-bearing walls
7. Columns
8. Unreinforced bearing walls
9. Reinforced bearing walls
10. Shear wall analysis
11. Shear wall design
12. Building system design: low-rise
13. Building system design: mid-rise
14. Brick veneers

2 Classes/week, 75 minutes/class