Wood Shear Wall Analysis & Design

Module Summary

• Analyzes and designs individual wood shear walls with the Individual Full-Height Wall Segment Shear Walls method
• Allows solid walls or walls with openings
• Considers combined axial load and bending
• Vertical and lateral loads can be specified as point loads or uniformly distributed loads
• Reports results for sheathing design, sheathing attachment, and chord design
• 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