Masonry Shear Wall Analysis & Design

Module Summary

• Analyzes and designs individual masonry shear walls
• Allows solid walls and walls with setbacks
• Considers combined axial load and bending
• Considers the resistance from bond beam reinforcing and/or horizontal joint reinforcing
• Vertical and lateral loads can be specified as point loads or uniformly distributed loads
• Offers the option to design a wall footing
• Offers the convenience of fill-in-the-blanks style forms and instantaneous recalculation to facilitate the evaluation of “what-if” scenarios
• Provides highly efficient results summaries as well as generous detail in the on-screen and printed results