Masonry is used to denote the art of building structures in stone or brick. A masonry wall is made of individual blocks of materials such as stones, bricks, concrete, hollow blocks, cellular concrete and laterite, usually cemented together in horizontal courses with some form of mortar. The binding strength of mortar is generally neglected as far as wall strength is concerned.
Masonry can be classified into the following categories:
- Stone masonry
- Brick masonry
- Hollow block concrete masonry
- Reinforced masonry
- Composite masonry
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