Structural Engineering: RE: jailbreak through CMU

And the grouted cell w/ no rebar, and the window set in the CMU veneer. Whay have a CMU veneer over CMU anyway?

>>> On 12/18/2007 at 10:28 AM, "Garner, Robert" <rgarner@moffattnichol.com> wrote:

What's with that bar in an ungrouted cell?

From: Christopher Banbury [mailto:cbanbury@arkengineering.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:56 AM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: jailbreak through CMU

I've always wondered about duration factors for prison "live loads" on reinforced CMU walls. Apparently it works out to two inmates with primitive tools for about 3 weeks.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317100,00.html

Christopher Banbury, PE

President

Ark Engineering, Inc.

PO Box 10129, Brooksville, FL 34603

22 North Broad ST, Brooksville, FL 34601

Phone: (352) 754-2424

Fax: (352) 754-2412