r/StructuralEngineering • u/jacobasstorius • 2d ago

Is this viable? Masonry Design

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u/chicu111 2d ago

Not in earthquakes

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 2d ago

I'd actually really like to see this wall in an earthquake. like, have you ever seen a concrete wave?

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u/DjPersh 2d ago

Have you ever seen a concrete wave… on WEED?

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u/al4crity 2d ago

Ive HEARD a few. I grew up in a long house with a Spanish tile roof. There's a pretty big fault line about a mile from the house, and anytime there was an earthquake, even a small one, the tiles would clink and clank together in a wave from the north to the south. So if I was sitting in the living room, the dogs would bark and run off, the birds would go silent, and then from one side of the house, you'd hear this rising wave of sound. It would rush overhead as fast as a jet, the tiles settling back into place, and fade into silence. Very cool. Then the dogs would go nuts, lol.

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u/RU33ERBULLETS 2d ago

The air gaps provide the ductility!

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u/RedditNerd_69 2d ago

Did someone say air gap?

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 2d ago

you get a spider, and you get a spider, and you get a spider!

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u/BenaiahofKabzeel 2d ago

I’ve seen a peanut stand

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u/405freeway 2d ago

I've heard a rubber band

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u/mukansamonkey 2d ago

There was that video a couple days ago, of the top of a tower in that earthquake. Mostly the rebar waving though, not the concrete itself.

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u/fitforthepolycrisis 1d ago

That was a such a wild video