Design of Reinforced Masonry Structures

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Summary: Do not buy!
Review: I have only looked at one section and found several errors. There are better masonry books out there!

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Summary: this book was ok
Review: The book seemed to be more specific towards the Eastern United States building codes. Lots of algebraic errors but there are many good examples in the book which can be followed.

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Summary: Good masonry engineering intro.....
Review: 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).