QuickMasonry 

Overview

QuickMasonry is a stand-alone product for the design and checking of a variety of masonry components used in buildings.  The tool offers "project management" ability in that it can help you design a whole series of lintels, and walls for a single building in one project file.  It follows the latest masonry design specifications and offers a host of impressive features.  This tool is without equal in the marketplace of engineering software.

Specifically, the software handles bearing walls, panel walls (loaded out-of-plane), shear walls, pilasters, columns, and beams (lintels). 

The Big Idea: Transparent Reporting in Design!

QuickMasonry has been specially designed to display every calculation performed along with any associated diagrams.  This complete exposure of calculations is unmatched in the industry and allows the peace of mind that comes from personally viewing and verifying any calculation about which there may be a question.

Flexibility 

The software is also flexible enough to handle a variety of input and loading conditions, hence making it applicable to a broad range of practical situations. 

Add to that a variety of options for customizing units, available block sizes, and graphics preferences, and you have the most comprehensive and user-friendly masonry design package on the market.

 

 

Masonry Components Handled

• Lintels
• Bearing Walls
• Panel Walls (loads out of plane)
• Shear Walls
• Pilasters
• Columns
• Beams

General

• New! MSJC-05 or MSJC-02 Code Provisions
  • (ACI 530, ASCE 5, TMS 402 and ACI 530.1, ASCE 6, TMS 602)
• New! Strength Design Provisions
• ASD (Allowable Stress Design)
• New! Clay Masonry Design
• New! Complete Version 2.0 Feature List
• Both reinforced and unreinforced (for walls & pilasters)
• Full grout, partial grout, or ungrouted.
• Store an unlimited number of different components in one project file
• All equations, methods, & diagrams are displayed – no hidden, “black box” calculations

Reports

• Complete echo of all inputs, including a detailed diagram of the designed component
• Tabulated summary of checks, including pass/fail, the controlling load combination, and other details
• 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 by showing the actual equations from the code
• Concise summary report also available
• Header block includes company logo (optional), user information, and custom project notes.

Common Options

• Automatically calculates & applies self-weight (with option to neglect)
• Choose normal-, medium-, or light-weight masonry block
• Specify stack or running bond
• Can add custom load combinations
• Can add custom block sizes
• Can add custom joint reinforcement sizes
• Can completely customize all units (including metric)
• Can set the default values for all inputs

Bearing/Panel Wall Specific Features

• 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 Specific Features

• 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 Specific Features

• 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 Specific Features

• Allows shear forces & moments about both axes
• Manually specify effective length factor
• Checks detail requirements in addition to strength checks

Beam (Lintel) Specific Features

• 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

 

 

 
 

What's the Big Idea in the "Quick" Products?

Transparency! Verifiability!

IES Quick products get you out of the black box with Transparent Reporting.  The software presents hyperlinks from every check to the complete check details including full algebraic expression of the code formula, substituted values, intermediate results, final results and "OK" or not!   This checking and verification output is available on-screen and in a detailed report.  (Summary reports provide a more concise output if you simply need to document the input and results.)

With most software products you either have to take the output on faith or go through laborious calculations to verify that the program is correctly doing what you want.  Not so with the IES Quick Products.  The software does the work, but you can check it every step of the way, and so can your checkers, the building-department people, or anyone else who needs to know.