A lintel is a piece of steel that sits above a doorway, window frame or other opening, which supports the masonry above it. Lintels come in a variety of shapes; an 'L' shape, an 'I' shape and a 'C ...

The brick lintel spans across the bay, so if water is making its way in, it has nowhere to go but to the drywall ceiling in the kitchen. Before I dig into this and hire contractors, I’d like ...

House builders employed lintels [Figure 5] as a way of deflecting the weight, or load away from the top of the window frames and doors and distribute the weight toward and down the walls. Before 1830 ...

The brick lintel spans across the bay, so if water is making its way in, it has nowhere to go but to the drywall ceiling in the kitchen. Before I dig into this and hire contractors, I’d like ...

Briefly, structural masonry is a construction system in which the walls of the building perform a structural function, using masonry units arranged in a way that is self-supporting and load-bearing.

The imposed load acting on lintels arises from one or a combination of masonry load, floor load and roof load. For traditional cavity wall constructions, the floor and roof are generally supported off ...

The eastern section is in the German Romanesque Revival style, with projecting brick header arches at the windows, iron shutter hinges, and cast iron door lintels. The central and eastern sections ...

Structural load paths will determine that there be larger, single-piece columns and lintels at ground level ... In stark contrast to the huge number of false brick buildings being built today this ...