530.1-02 Specification for Masonry Structures - Free

1 Specification for Masonry Structures (ACI 6-02/TMS 602-02). Reported by the Masonry Standards Joint Committee (MSJC). Max L. Porter Donald G. McMican J. Gregg Borchelt Jason J. Thompson Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary Membership Secretary Regular Members1: Bechara E. Abboud Howard L. Droz Eric N. Johnson Jerry M. Painter Bijan Ahmadi Jeffrey L. Elder John C. Kariotis Keith G. Peetz Amde M. Amde Richard C. Felice Jon P. Kiland Joseph E. Saliba James E. Amrhein Richard Filloramo Richard E. Klingner Michael P. Schuller Bruce Barnes Russell T. Flynn L. Donald Leinweber Richard C. Schumacher Ronald E. Barnett Fouad H. Fouad Hugh C. MacDonald Jr.

2 Daniel Shapiro Christine Beall John A. Frauenhoffer John H. Matthys Michael J. Tate Richard M. Bennett Thomas A. Gangel Robert McCluer Itzhak Tepper Frank Berg Hans R. Ganz W. Mark McGinley Margaret Thomson David T. Biggs David C. Gastgeb John Melander Diane Throop Russell H. Brown Stephen H. Getz George A. Miller Robert E. VanLaningham Jim Bryja Satyendra K. Ghosh Reg Miller Donald W. Vannoy Mario J. Catani Edgar F. Glock Jr. Vilas Mujumdar Brian J. Walker Robert N. Chittenden Clayford T. Grimm Colin C. Munro Scott W. Walkowicz John Chrysler H. R. Hamilton III W. Thomas Munsell Terence A. Weigel James Colville R. Craig Henderson Javeed A. Munshi A.

3 Rhett Whitlock Robert W. Crooks Kurt R. Hoigard Antonio Nanni Joseph A. Wintz III. George E. Crow III Thomas A. Holm Robert L. Nelson Thomas D. Wright Nic Cuoco Ronald J. Hunsicker Joseph F. Neussendorfer R. Dale Yarbrough Terry M. Curtis Rochelle C. Jaffe James L. Nicholos Daniel Zechmeister Gerald A. Dalrymple Rashod R. Johnson Gary G. Nichols Associate Members2: Ghassan Al-Chaar David Giambrone Peter T. Laursen Paul G. Scott William G. Bailey Dennis W. Graber Steve Lawrence Christine A. Subasic Yigit Bozkurt Jeffrey H. Greenwald Michael D. Lewis Narendra Taly Dean Brown B. A. Haseltine Nicholas T. Loomis John G. Tawresey John Bufford Barbara G.

4 Heller Robert F. Mast Robert Thomas Kevin D. Callahan A. W. Hendry Raul Alamo Neidhart Dean J. Tills I. Kwang Chang Thomas F. Herrell Steven E. O'Hara Michael G. Verlaque Charles B. Clark Jr. Paul Hobelman Rick Okawa William A. Wood James W. Cowie Jason Ingham Adrian W. Page Walter L. Dickey Fred A. Kinateder Ronald Sandy Pringle M. Arif Fazil Mervyn K. Kowalsky Ruiz Lopez M. Rafael Christopher L. Galitz Norbert Krogstad Roscoe Reeves Jr. SYNOPSIS. This Specification for Masonry Structures (ACI 6-02/TMS Keywords: anchors; clay brick; clay tile; concrete block; concrete brick;. 602-02) is written as a master Specification and is required by the Code to construction; construction materials; curing; grout; grouting; inspection.

5 Control materials, labor, and construction. Thus, this Specification covers joints; Masonry ; materials handling; mortars (material and placement);. minimum construction requirements for Masonry in Structures . Included quality assurance and quality control; reinforcing steel; specifications; ties;. are quality assurance requirements for materials; the placing, bonding, tests; tolerances. and anchoring of Masonry ; and the placement of grout and of 1. reinforcement. This Specification is meant to be modified and referenced Regular members fully participate in Committee activities, including responding to in the Project Manual. correspondence and voting.

6 2. Associate members monitor Committee activities, but do not have voting privileges. Adopted as a standard of the American Concrete Institute (February 11, 2002), the November, 1988, the American Society of Civil Engineers in August, 1989, and Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers The Masonry Society in July, 1992. September 28, 2001, and The Masonry Society (February 15, 2002) to supersede the 1999 edition in accordance with each organization's standardization procedures. SI equivalents shown in this document are calculated conversions. Equations are The standard was originally adopted by the American Concrete Institute in based on Customary (inch-pound) Units.

7 S-2 MANUAL OF CONCRETE PRACTICE. FOREWORD. F1. This foreword is included for explanatory Construction Specifications Institute, as adapted by ACI. purposes only; it does not form a part of Specification The language is generally imperative and terse. ACI 6/TMS 602. F4. Checklists are included as a preface to, but not F2. Specification ACI 6/TMS 602 is a forming a part of, Specification ACI 6/TMS. reference standard which the architect/ engineer may cite 602. The purpose of these Checklists is to assist the in the contract documents for any project, together with architect/engineer in properly choosing and specifying supplementary requirements for the specific project.

8 The necessary mandatory and optional requirements for F3. Specification ACI 6/TMS 602 is the project specifications. written in the three-part section format of the PREFACE TO Specification CHECKLISTS. P1. Specification ACI 6/TMS 602 is P4. A statement such as the following will serve to intended to be used in its entirety by reference in the make Specification ACI 6/TMS 602 an project specifications. Individual sections, articles, or official part of the project specifications: paragraphs should not be copied into the project Masonry construction and materials shall conform to specifications since taking them out of context may all requirements of " Specification for Masonry Structures change their meaning.

9 (ACI 6/TMS 602)," published by The P2. Building codes (of which this standard is a part Masonry Society, Boulder, Colorado; the American by reference) set minimum requirements necessary to Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Michigan; and the protect the public. Project specifications often stipulate American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia, requirements more restrictive than the minimum. except as modified by the requirements of these contract Adjustments to the needs of a particular project are documents. intended to be made by the architect/engineer by P5. The Checklists which follow are addressed to reviewing each of the items in the Checklists and then each item of this Specification where the including the architect/engineer's decision on each item architect/engineer must or may make a choice of as a mandatory requirement in the project specifications.

10 Alternatives; may add provisions if not indicated; or may P3. These mandatory requirements should designate take exceptions. The Checklists consist of two columns;. the specific qualities, procedures, materials, and the first identifies the sections, parts, and articles of the performance criteria for which alternatives are permitted Specification , and the second column contains notes to or for which provisions were not made in this the architect/engineer to indicate the type of action Specification . Exceptions to this Specification should be required by the architect/engineer. made in the project specifications, if required. Specification FOR Masonry Structures S-3.