Report # 160 : Combined and Confined Masonry Construction
by Arturo Tena-Colunga, Artemio Juárez-Ãngeles, Victor Hugo Salinas-Vallejo It is defined as combined and confined masonry structures those where the bearing/seismic walls are made by alternating courses of lightweight concrete blocks (inexpensive in Mexico) with courses of fired clay bricks (more expensive) and they are confined with cast-in place reinforced-concrete tie-beams and tie-columns (Figure 1). […]
Report # 115 : Reinforced concrete multistory buildings
by Mario Rodriguez, Francisco G. Jarque This report describes Reinforced Concrete (RC) multistory residential buildings in Mexico. This type of construction is found mostly in large cities where space limitations lead to this type of solution. Typically buildings of this type have eight or more stories. Members of the middle and upper classes are the […]