masonry walls
Mortared block structures
Masonry walls are walls constructed from individual units—bricks, concrete blocks, or stone—bound together with mortar.
The term distinguishes these from walls made of poured concrete, wood framing, or other materials.
Masonry walls may be structural (load-bearing) or decorative: The old factory's masonry walls were two feet thick.
- stackingPlacing items vertically
- brickFired clay building unit
- brick and mortarBusiness with premises
- concrete blockMolded masite building unit
- adobeSun-dried clay bricks
load bearing · structural integrity · stone · bonding · grouting · reinforcement · waterproofing · efflorescence · tensile strength · mortar · tuckpointing · pointing · clay · expansion joints · parapet · fire rating · leveling · curing
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
- wallsdrywall, wallboard, bulkhead, rampart, bastion
- brickworkbricks, brickwork, bricklaying, clay bricks, red brick
- tropical architecturebreezeway, cross ventilation, hurricane shutters, lanai, louvers
- earthquake engineeringearthquake engineering, seismic waves, liquefaction, seismic risk, dampers
structural material/construction method
masonry wallssteel construction
Building with metal frameworks