American Standard Building Code Requirements for Masonry (Classic Reprint)

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Section 11. Faced walls 11 - 1. Material 11 - 2. Allowable stresses 11 - 3. Thickness 11-4. Bond section 12. Foundation walls section 13. Piers section 14. Structural glass block section 15. Parapet walls section 16. Partitions. 1 6 1. Bearing partitions 16 - 2. N onbearing partitions section 17. Miscellaneous masonry requirements 17 - 1. Bonding Of wall intersections 17 - 2. Anchoring Of walls 17 - 3. Chases and recesses 17 - 4. Lintels and arches 17 - 5. Separation Of combustible structural members 17 - 6. Beam supports 17-7. Corbelling Of chimneys 17-8. Cornices section 18. Existing walls section 19. Erection appendix 1 - 3. Tests 1 - 4. Second-hand materials 1 - 5. Materials and methods Of construction not covered In these requirements 2. Reference to standards 2 - 1. Durability Of masonry units 2 - 14. Mortar requirements 2 - 15. Classification of mortar 2 - 16, Types Of mortar required 3. Allowable stresses in masonry 3 Higher stresses 3 - 2. Composite walls 4. Lateral support 5 - 1. Thickness of solid masonry bearing walls-unt 5 - 2. Thickness Of solid masonry nonbearing walls 5-3. Bond 6 - 1 Thickness and height of walls of structuralclay tile or hollow' concrete masonry units 7 - 1. Thickness of solid walls of plain concrete. 8 - 1. Thickness of stone walls 9. Cavity walls and hollow walls Of solid units 9 - 4. Bond 10 - 4. Attachment Of veneering 12. Foundation walls 12 - 2. _minimum thickness Of foundation walls 13. Piers 15. Parapet walls 16 - 2. N onbearing partitions 17 - 3. Chases and recesses 19 - 1. Winter construetion 19 - 2. Wetting of bricks (clay or shale)

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