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In 2010, The Masonry Society (TMS) published a new design standard (TMS 403 – Direct Design Handbook for Masonry Structures) for the design of single-story, loadbearing, concrete masonry structures. This handbook, which is based on ASCE 7-05 load requirements, and the strength design procedures of TMS 402-08/ACI 530-08/ASCE 5-08, provides a simple and rapid procedure for the design of single-story concrete masonry structures. This seminar reviews this new handbook, its basis, the direct design procedure, and the limitations on its use. Instructors discuss how the procedure can be used to produce efficient, safe designs, more rapidly than by using conventional methods.

Future and recent seminars are listed below:

• August 9, 2011 - Direct Design of Masonry Structures Seminar - State College, Pennsylvania - Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Concrete Masonry Association and the National Concrete Masonry Association

   

• September 20, 2011 - Direct Design of Masonry Structures Seminar - King of Prussia, Pennsylvania - Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Concrete Masonry Association and the National Concrete Masonry Association

   

• November 10, 2011 - Direct Design of Structural Masonry Seminar - San Antonio, Texas