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Proceedings of a session of Structures Congress '86, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 15-18, 1986.

This collection contains eight state-of-the-art papers focusing on the advanced analysis techniques that have been and can be employed to predict the behavior of structural masonry.

Topics include:

• load-deflection behavior of masonry veneer and steel stud wall systems,
• corner cracking in brick masonry veneer,
• techniques for numerical modeling of two-story concrete block buildings for resistance to lateral forces,
• development of a nonlinear dynamic constitutive model for masonry
• loss of prestress in post-tensioned hollow masonry walls,
• prediction of ultimate failure loads and estimation of normal and shear stresses in collar joints of composite walls resulting from creep and temperature, and
• development of failure-criterion for blockwork masonry subjected to off-axis bending.