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Chapter 3 Brick Masonry & Reintorced Concrete Bulldings
It can be seen that for the pier P2 total stresses were tensile even for code level
forces. In other piers the margins of safety are rather two narrow. Brick masonry
is very weak under tension and, therefore, designers avoid the development of
tensile stresses in unreinforced masonry members.
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