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Serving Since 1994
Masonry Components Handled
- Lintels & Beams
- Bearing Walls
- Panel Walls (loads out of plane)
- Shear Walls
- Columns and Pilasters
Design Specifications
- New! MSJC-2008 or MSJC-05 Code Provisions (ACI 530, ASCE 5, TMS 402, ASCE 6, TMS 602)
- Strength Design Provisions
- ASD (Allowable Stress Design) both MSJC-2008 and MSJC-05, reinforced & unreinforced
Reports
- Transparent Reporting: shows all equations!
- Complete echo of all inputs, including detailed diagrams
- Tabulated summary of checks, including pass/fail
- Summary of factored loads
- Detailed internal force calculations, including shear & moment diagrams
- Detailed capacity calculations, including code equations, interaction diagrams, and drawings of the internal strain, stress, and forces states for reinforced cross sections
- Checks are illustrated with the actual equations from the code
- Concise summary report also available
- Header includes company logo, and custom project notes
Common Features
- Automatically calculates & applies self-weight
- Normal-, medium-, or light-weight masonry block
- Specify stack or running bond
- Custom load combinations
- Custom block sizes
- Custom joint reinforcement sizes
- Work in any unit system
- Set the default values for all inputs
- New! Add notes to your project
Bearing Wall Design (Panel)
- Lateral pressure can vary linearly (as from soil)
- Apply to only part of the wall, if desired
- Option to neglect the lateral load on the parapet
- Option for two bars in a cell (providing two layers of reinforcement)
- Option to use a virtual eccentricity including the effects of wall weight
Shear Wall Design
- Can use special ladder or truss joint reinforcement in lieu of standard rebar
- Option for two bars in a cell (providing two layers of reinforcement)
- Allows "extra" vertical bars at the ends to resist flexure (in addition to distributed vertical bars
- Shear force can be applied at a location lower than the top of the wall
- Option to include only the flexural bars at the wall ends for axial/flexural analysis
Pilaster Design
- Lateral pressure can vary linearly (as from soil), and can apply to only part of the pilaster
- Can specify limits on effective flange (wall) width on either side
Column Design
- Allows shear forces & moments about both axes
- Manually specify effective length factor
- Checks detail requirements in addition to strength checks
Beam (Lintel) Design
- New! Out-of-plane loading
- New! Top rebar option
- Option to take shear at d/2 from support
- Option to ignore arching action
- Option to include the weight of the wall above the lintel
- Option whether to use a 30° or 45° dispersion angle for loads above the top of the beam
- Checks detail requirements in addition to strength checks
Intuitive User Interface
- Drawing of component displayed next to input screens; updates with changes
- Help screens next to input screens give definitions of each input
- A separate Checks View shows details of calculations & checks
- Constantly updated, always visible status display for each check (pass/fail)
- Clicking on a check status display instantly takes you to the associated equations
