1Professor Emeritus, Kingston University, 6 Birchdale, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, SL9 7JA U.K. john@johnroberts.org.uk
ABSTRACT
At the First Canadian Masonry Conference in Calgary in 1976 I presented two research papers one of which dealt with the behaviour of vertically reinforced blockwork [1&2]. Since that time a Code of Practice for reinforced masonry, BS 5628 Part 2, was introduced in the UK and subsequently updated and developed [3]. In 2010 the BS 5628 standards were withdrawn in favour of BS EN 1996-1-1(Eurocode 6) [4]. This paper traces the development of reinforced masonry in the UK from some of the earliest test sources to the current recommendations contained in Eurocode 6 and the associated UK National Annex [5].
KEYWORDS: reinforced, masonry, Eurocode, design, code
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