Masonry Magazine October 2003 Page. 14
POST-TENSION MASONRY
Putting Prestressed Masonry to Use
By David T. Biggs, P.E.
Ryan-Biggs Associates, P.C.
Prestressed masonry is not new. Some very industrious and creative builders used it back in the 1800s, although they did not call it prestressed masonry at that time. Since the 1980s and the advent of masonry research, the technology has developed and is now used throughout the world. While the British first adopted standards for prestressed masonry in 1985, the U.S. standards were introduced with the 1999 edition of the Masonry Standards Joint Committee code (MSJC).
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