The Masonry Society

Strength Design of Walls for In-Plane Loads & Seismic Detailing
2021-02-24 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Shear walls are critical building elements to resist in-plane loads and are, for masonry, the seismic-force-resisting system. This session of Masonry Night School: Strength Design of Masonry will review strength design of shear walls, along with both seismic detailing requirements and minimum/maximum detailing requirements for such walls.
Continuing Education: 1 AIA LU / 1 PDH / 0.10 CEU

Learning Objectives:

Introduce masonry shear walls and applied loads on these critical elements
Discuss seismic detailing requirements for masonry shear walls
Review the strength design provisions for masonry shear walls for combined axial load and bending and for shear
Overview maximum and minimum reinforcement limits and detailing of shear walls

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About the Presenter
John M. Hochwalt, P.E., S.E., Director of Engineering, KPFF Consulting Engineers-Seattle Structural Group, is Director of Engineering for the Seattle structural group of KPFF Consulting Engineers. In that capacity, he provides technical leadership for over one hundred structural engineers. Prior to joining KPFF in 1998, he worked with RTKL in Baltimore and Barber & Hoffman in Cleveland. In addition to providing engineering services for the design of new buildings and retrofit of existing buildings, he has taught structural design of masonry the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, the Structural Engineers Association of Washington, the Northwest Concrete Masonry Association, The Masonry Society, and the University of Washington. He is the current editor of the Reinforced Masonry Engineering Handbook, originally authored by James Amrhein, and he recently served as co-author on the new Strength Design Guide of Masonry. Within The Masonry Society he has served in a variety of capacities including Chair of the subcommittee for Seismic and Limit Design for TMS 402, voting member of the TMS 402 Main committee, and corresponding member of the Design Practices Committee. He was recently elected to serve on TMS’s Director of Directors and received a 2020 TMS Service Award.

Strength Design of Walls for Axial Load and Out-Of-Plane Loads
2021-02-17 19:00 - 20:00
During this session of Masonry Night School: Strength Design of Masonry, design of masonry walls loaded with out-of-plane loads and axial loads will be reviewed. Methods to consider secondary bending moments will be examined, including using P-delta provisions, and key points on interaction diagrams will be reviewed. Differences in the strength design provisions and allowable stress design will be briefly discussed.
Continuing Education: 1 AIA LU / 1 PDH / 0.10 CEU

Learning Objectives:

Review the design of walls loaded with out-of-plane with axial loads
Identify methods to consider secondary bending moment
Review P-delta provisions for secondary bending moment
Describe basic differences between allowable stress design and strength design for such walls

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About the Presenter

Richard M. Bennett, Ph.D., P.E., FTMS, Professor at the University of Tennessee, is a Professor at the University of Tennessee. He served as the Chair of the 2016 TMS 402/602 Committee and he currently serves as the 2nd Vice Chair of the 2022 Committee. He has taught extensively and presented on many topics for The Masonry Society and other groups, sharing insights and findings from his research and trial designs. For his tremendous efforts in leading the Committee, he received TMS’s President’s Award and was made a Fellow of the Society.
Dr. Bennett recently co-authored Strength Design of Masonry for The Masonry Society and has served as a co-author on the popular Masonry Designer’s Guide, TMS Responds, and other publications. His writing and work have been awarded with TMS Journal Paper Awards and an 11th North American Masonry Conference Outstanding Paper Award.
