When creating a new beam in MASS, it can initially seem confusing to be shown so many different terms regarding lengths and spans. This post breaks down the difference between

Want to place stirrups but the options are greyed out?

This is one of the most common question we get having to do with masonry beam design so if this is

A.T. Vermeltfoort

Associated Professor, Section Structural Masonry, Department of architecture, building and planning, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, a.t.vermeltfoort@tue.nl

ABSTRACT

This paper describes research into

X.M. Zhai1, Y. Z. Totoev2 and M.G. Stewart3

Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150090, China, xmzhai@hit.edu.cn
Senior lecturer, Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability,