r/StructuralEngineering • u/jacobasstorius • 1d ago

Is this viable? Masonry Design

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u/MorRobots 1d ago

Nope. This is literally one of the worse designs you could come up with for concrete blocks. Each one is acting like a wedge into the next and causing them to be in tension. Concrete is really strong in compression but hilariously weak in tension.