You have a lot of buildings, brick buildings, what we call unreinforced masonry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008] Reference

Relative to plain unreinforced masonry, this gives the following benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexican House Construction - a Common Misunderstanding] Reference

In countries that are seismically stable, plain unreinforced masonry is used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexican House Construction - a Common Misunderstanding] Reference

The roofing sheet must be regarded as an unreinforced element.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Technical rationale] Reference

Reinforced concrete has much greater strength than unreinforced concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Now, the reason those -- these buildings fell is they are unreinforced masonry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003] Reference

"Does it feel better to perform reinforced behaviors, or unreinforced behaviors?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

We did have damage, of course, in some of our older, unreinforced masonry buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Defends the Marc Rich Pardon - February 28, 2001] Reference

When the fibres lose their strength, the product is equivalent to unreinforced concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

Many of the fine old commercial buildings downtown were constructed of unreinforced brick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fault Line]

A valley in which perhaps a million people lived, most in houses made of unreinforced brick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fault Line]

Concrete that has been reinforced has from 2 to 5 times the strength of unreinforced concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

· When the fibres lose their strength, the product is equivalent to an unreinforced concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Reinforced concrete footings require the same formwork as unreinforced footings (see page 129).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

The major structural peril is the large stock of old (pre-1934), unreinforced masonry buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living on the Fault Line] Reference

This unstrengthened or unreinforced concrete is the problem when the wave begins to shake the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010] Reference

These are a good example of the compressive strength of unreinforced concrete and the lack of tensile strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinder block vs brick] Reference

British Standards Institution: Code of practice for structural use of masonry, Part 1 - unreinforced masonry, doc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

San Francisco officials after the 1989 quake identified about 2,000 dangerous unreinforced masonry buildings in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracing for a Quake] Reference

This means that, for example, a 10 cm. thick reinforced concrete wall will be as strong as an unreinforced wall twice as thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Hence, FCR must be installed and treated with the same care and precautions as for burnt clay materials or unreinforced concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

A: Only if you live in an old, unreinforced adobe house.    From Wordnik.com.  [TurnTo23.com - Local News] Reference

It is much more effective than ordinary unreinforced variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916] Reference

High winds particularly threaten unreinforced terminal structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Millard Fillmore's Bathtub] Reference

The foundations were constructed in the 1920s of unreinforced concrete.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Demolish all unreinforced masonry buildings, everywhere - Victoria professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference

As far as the chimney itself, we're guessing that it is made of unreinforced masonry.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

He said policy regarding unreinforced masonry structures should now become "urgent" because.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

A brick-and-mortar wall is pretty similar in behaviour to unreinforced concrete, I believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

In many schools, built mainly of unreinforced concrete, hundreds of children and youth died.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Forty people have died working in the sandy, unreinforced underground passages so far this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [English-writing Israeli-bloggers] Reference

This has enormous potential for use in reinforcing unreinforced masonry in earthquake prone areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [User Friendly RSS Feed] Reference

Branch connections can be reinforced or unreinforced stub-in / out with or without pad requirement.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Many unreinforced buildings collapse from the up-and-down motion and the shearing motion of surface waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from The Sun] Reference

Hundreds of people inside old, unreinforced buildings in San Bernardino, Pasadena, Pomona and Whittier are crushed to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Gabriel Valley Tribune Most Viewed] Reference

Those can be things like tall towers, taller buildings, pipelines and of real concern are older, unreinforced masonry structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carthage Press Homepage RSS] Reference

But the exemption currently does not apply to older unreinforced masonry buildings that are in the greatest need of retrofitting.    From Wordnik.com.  [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference

Two unreinforced masonry buildings were among those that suffered the worst damage, the Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services said.    From Wordnik.com.  [SacBee -- Latest News] Reference