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Abstract Masonry construction is perhaps the oldest building system ever employed by man. Research in building and materials has caused a renewed interest in load bearing masonry construction. Today, load bearing masonry structures offer a competitive and an economical building system among the skeleton type structures. The most common type of masonry walls used in construction is the concrete block masonry walls. The reason for their wide spread application is the variety of the block shapes that can be adopted to fit various structural and architectural requirements. In addition, the concrete hollow block masonry units have also proved to be suitable in thermal inSUlation which makes them rather acceptable in areas of hot climate. Moreover, the constituent materials of the concrete blocks are available allover the world and the roduction of concrete blocks does not endanger the fertility of the agricultural soil as the case with using clay in producing bricks. |