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(IBC), Masonry Standards Joint Committee (MSJC)
Designing masonry walls for in-plane and out-of-plane loading. Exploring loading combinations and design for most critical cases. Firsthand experience using masonry design software.
The seminars are presented by Russell Brown, P.E., Ph.D., professor of civil engineering at Clemson University and chairman of the Flexure and Axial Loads Subcommittee of the MSJC (2005 code cycle). Brown is a founding member and fellow of The Masonry Society and co-author of the software distributed at the IMI seminar.
"Our overriding goal for the series," says IMI National Director of Market Development and Technical Services David Sovinski, "was to make designers more comfortable designing structural masonry by arming them with knowledge. Judging from the responses we have gotten from people at the seminars, we really are helping them to understand structural masonry. And that makes them much more likely to use it."
Sovinski says the hands-on approach of working with both design challenges and custom structural masonry software won rave reviews during the 2005 launch across the country, which included stops in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Boston, as well as Indiana, Wisconsin and New York. Such educational programs are a core mission of IMI, which is a strategic alliance of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) and signatory contractors.
Audiences, made up of architects, structural engineers, contractors, building
Counter-clockwise from top left: This Tork College dormitory, Brockie Commons, built by Caretti Inc., is 100 percent masonry, including block, brick, precast and many yards of grout. The precast planking floor allowed many of the block walls to be loadbearing.
Design and building professionals attending the IMI Structural Masonry Design seminars got a solid foundation in structural masonry, plus hands-on experience with custom software.
Working with structural masonry is getting easier, thanks to a technical design seminar series from IMI.
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