New Blog in Dutch!

Today we've made our new Dutch blog fully available to view, so if you prefer to read our documents in your native language or in Dutch you can!

http://steelforbricksmetselwerkwapening.blogspot.com.

TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF MY WALL IN SEISMIC EVENTS, WILL I NEED TO PUT A LOT OF BED JOINT REINFORCEMENT?

For seismic events, the reinforcement itself will improve the mechanical behaviour of the wall because of its ductile properties.

However for the same reasons given previously, this cannot be assigned stability of the wall to the reinforcement itself.

For the reinforcement to be calculated into seismic effects, it should be accompanied by other elements of retention, such as anchors to the pillars.

AS I HAVE BUILT MY WALL VERY HIGH, WILL IT NEED A LOT OF REINFORCEMENT?

The reinforcement is not an element of retention, a wall with lots of reinforcement if it is not sufficiently connected to the structure may fall in its entirety. The masonry reinforcement does not provide stability itself. The reinforcement is there to provide ductility and therefore significantly reducing the risk of cracking. When assigning the reinforcement a mission to structurally support, it is imperative that the wall and support pillars and connected by anchors.

NEW BLOGS FOR LANGUAGES

After a recent update with our youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/STEELforBRICKS

we now have our blog in 3 languages: English, Spanish and French.

You can click on the language you want on the top of the main page. We will be updating each regularily with news and details of our products.