11. September 2014
Masonry – on its way to Europe
The 9th International Masonry Conference in Guimarães in Portugal is an opportunity for the editorial and the publisher to off r a bilingual issue of the Mauerwerk journal.(...) Up to now, the journal has been largely confined to Germany. However, as Europe grows closer together it is becoming more and more necessary to look beyond one’s own country boundaries, to take an interest in one’s neighbours and to get to know – and possibly also apply – their findings and experience.(...)
Author: Wolfram Jäger
Editorial published in Mauerwerk (Masonry) (3/4)2014
topics of the issue:
- The M1 energy-plus masonry house
- Masonry – a sustainable building material
- Recent developments in masonry construction
- The durability of autoclaved aerated concrete
- Testing of small-scale models on simple earthquake simulators
- The loadbearing capacity of walls subjected to concentrated loads