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Good Building Guide 62 Retro-installation of bed joint reinforcement in masonry
Publication Year
2004
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Bed joint reinforcement, added during construction, is an accepted technique for making masonry walls tougher, stronger in flexure and tension, and less likely to crack. For about a decade, the industry has been developing methods for installing bed joint reinforcement into existing walls, i.e. retro-reinforcement’. This allows the product to be used for crack repair (stitching), repairing sagging lintels and flat arches, developing arches or cantilevers within a wall to span over patches of subsidence, increasing the flexural strength (out of plane) and shear resistance of walls to combat wind and seismic loading, and reconnecting cracked or parted buttresses.
Author
de Vekey, R. C.
ISBN
9781860817243
Publisher Information
BRE
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