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Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted...

The Egyptian pyramids are ancient masonry structures located in Egypt. Sources cite at least 118 identified "Egyptian" pyramids. Approximately 80 pyramids...

A masonry oven, colloquially known as a brick oven or stone oven, is an oven consisting of a baking chamber made of fireproof brick, concrete, stone,...

layered around a bedrock core with the upper sections filled in with loose masonry. On the east side there is a cult niche to the north and a L-shaped...

transformed into a "true" pyramid by having its steps filled in with loose masonry. A map and complete list of excavated structures until the year 2019...

cutting through loose debris. If the vibration caused by the work in the chamber at the bottom of the deep pit made some of the loose masonry to fall down...

Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood) is a term used for a natural building...

The masonry arch bridges of stone or brick are the most genuine of arch bridges, some lasting a thousand years. Because they are made of worked stone...

materials, most of the buildings in the village were constructed from loose masonry stone and filled with gravel or stone. Only the homes of the landed...

techniques to reinforce masonry. The most common type is the reinforced hollow unit masonry. To achieve a ductile behavior in masonry, it is necessary that...

West from the 18th century. In Middle Byzantine architecture cloisonné masonry refers to walls built with a regular mix of stone and brick, often with...

Stone walls are a kind of masonry construction that has been used for thousands of years. The first stone walls were constructed by farmers and primitive...

charges. She strangled them, drowned them or burned them to death in her masonry heater. The corpses were either cremated, buried or hidden in the loft...

loose material and rubble. The road is paved and parapet walls protectively confine traffic to the bridge. Corbel arch built from Cyclopean masonry,...

and Demolition and Reuse of Concrete and Masonry: Guidelines for Demolition and Reuse of Concrete and Masonry: Proceedings of the Third International RILEM...

they are often made from mortarless stone or segmental concrete units (masonry units). Dry-stacked gravity walls are somewhat flexible and do not require...

is a type of anchor that, for example, allows screws to be fitted into masonry walls. In US English, mentions of drywall anchors are sometimes meant (and...

improvements, creating a structure 14 m (46 ft) high, with five spillways, two masonry-reinforced sluices, a settling pond, and a 1,000 m (3,300 ft) canal to...

mortar is a bonding agent that typically holds bricks, tiles and other masonry units together. Grout is another material associated with concrete and...

lodges and later they adopted male degrees giving rise to French women's Masonry in the 1950s. 18th-century British lodges and their American offshoots...