Masonry Design and Detailing for Architects and Contractors, Fifth Edition
Featuring insight on the complete range of masonry topics, this hands-on guide provides hundreds of illustrations to maximize your understanding of these critical issues.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Masonry Design and Detailing for Architects and Contractors, Fifth Edition
Appendix A: Glossary
- Absorption
- The amount of water that a masonry unit absorbs when immersed in water under specified conditions for a specified length of time.
- Absorption Rate
- The weight of water absorbed when a brick is partially immersed for 1 minute, usually expressed in either grams or ounces per minute. Also called suction or initial rate of absorption . [*]
- Abutment
- (1) That part of a pier or wall from which an arch springs, specifically the support at either end of an arch, beam, or bridge. (2) A skewback and the masonry that supports it.
- Accelerator
- Ingredient added to mortar or grout to speed hydration of cemetitious components to hasten set time.
- ACI
- American Concrete Institute.
- Adhered
- Attached by adhesion rather than mechanical anchorage, as in adhered veneer.
- Adhesion-Type Ceramic Veneer
- Thin sections of ceramic veneer, held in place by adhesion of mortar to unit and to backing. No metal anchors are required.
- Admixture
- A material other than water, aggregates, hydraulic cement, or fiber reinforcement used as an ingredient of grout or mortar and added to the batch immediately before or during its mixing.
- Adobe
- Soil of diatomaceous content mixed with sufficient water so that plasticity can be developed for molding into masonry units.
- Aggregate
- Granular mineral material such as natural sand, manufactured sand, gravel, crushed stone, or air-cooled blast furnace slag.
- Air Drying
- The process of drying block or brick without any special equipment, simply by exposure to ambient...
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