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IES QuickRWall (pronounced "quicker wall") designs and checks Retaining Walls with just a little help from you. This stand-alone program is dedicated to this task, making your job easier. This software works well if you design just one wall a year or one every week.

QuickRWall is not a "black box" tool: it exposes all calculations for checking. The tool is the best available for ease of use, comprehensive ability, and professional quality reports.

Easy to use with built-in sketch, help, and complete code checks. Click for Full Size image.
A clean user-interface with easy input and immediate visual feedback.

Key Benefits

  • Cantilever Retaining Walls
  • Gravity Retaining Walls (ACI Chapter 22 provisions).
  • Restrained Walls (e.g. Basement Wall, propped cantilever)
  • Wall stems may be concrete or masonry (or mixed).
  • Wall stems may be tapered (battered) or stepped.
  • Design Checks according to IBC 2006, or IBC 2003, or CSA A23.3-94
  • Wide variety of loading types
  • Highly detailed display or reports of calculations and checks
  • DXF File export (sketch with rebar layouts)
  • Complete equations in the full report (no more black box!)
  • Single-page summary report option.
  • See the Features tab above for the complete list...

QuickRWall is a dedicated tool to get you out of the 'black box' and into high-quality retaining wall design in short order. Reports are excellent! Full equations and intermediate data are available for complete checking. A one-page report is also available for quick results. Very graphical, very easy to use.

Feature Contents

Key Benefits

  • Cantilever Retaining Walls
  • Gravity Retaining Walls (ACI Chapter 22 provisions).
  • Restrained Walls (e.g. Basement Wall, propped cantilever)
  • Wall stems may be concrete or masonry (or mixed).
  • Wall stems may be tapered (battered) or stepped.
  • Design Checks according to IBC 2006, or IBC 2003, or CSA A23.3-94
  • Wide variety of loading types

Results Displayed

  • All resultant pressures on the wall are illustrated graphically, along with the underlying equations
  • All building code equations are displayed, worked out with project-specific values
  • Pictures of the wall, or of a relevant part of the wall, accompany many calculations
  • Building code provision (e.g. "ACI 318-05 11.1.1") displayed next to all code equations
  • Graphics plot of stem moment capacity and applied moment
  • Graphics plot of stem shear capacity and applied shear
  • Summary table of all checks including name, required value, provided value, required/provided ratio, and controlling load case

Reporting

  • Detailed report including all design calculations & diagrams.
    Concise summary report
  • Full-page drawing report with fully detailed drawing of wall cross-section and elevation
  • File name printed at the bottom of all report pages
  • Report headers display basic company information, plus project title, notes and job number
  • Company logo displayed in header (optional)
  • DXF file export

Engineering Options / Assumptions

  • Option to indicate sliding restrained by external entity (e.g. slab)
  • Option to include or neglect the bearing pressure beneath the heel for strength checks.
  • Option to ignore stabilizing contribution from passive pressure @ toe
  • Options to include the vertical component of the backfill pressure for overturning, sliding, and
    bearing pressure checks (individual option for each)
  • Option to include surcharge forces in the sliding and overturning checks
  • Option to use surcharge forces for bearing pressure calculation
    Option to neglect the weight of the soil over the toe
  • Option to factor earth weight as either dead load or earth load
  • User-specified coefficient of friction between footing & subgrade
    User-specified wall friction angle (used if backfill pressure is calculate via Coulomb theory)

Automated Design Commands (Optional)

  • Automatically choose footing reinforcement
  • Automatically choose stem reinforcement
  • Automatically sets required bar embedment lengths and lap splice lengths
  • Automatically positions key to embed stem bars, also such that reinforces key
  • Automatically designs shear key to resist sliding
  • Specify preferences used in all design functions: which bars are available, which spacings to use,
    which length increments to consider, etc.

Limitations (potential, future features!)

  • Segmental / MSE walls
  • Multi-level basement walls (multiple lateral supports)
  • Soldier pile walls
  • Shrinkage/Temperature reinforcing may be entered, but it is just for detailing, it is not "checked"
  • Rock anchors
  • Walls without footings
  • Walls on pile foundations
  • Counterfort walls
  • Buttress walls
  • Strength design of masonry walls (currently only ASD)
  • Sheet pile walls
  • Multiple soil layers (other than a saturated layer beneath the water table)

See also "New Features in Version 2.0"


Your input data is directly visualized with the detailed graphics. Click for larger image. The criteria page demonstrates the comprehensive documentation built-in to the program. Click for larger image.
As you work on input, the software continuously checks, displaying a summary at right. Click for larger image. Get quick check ratios on the summary page. Each check is a hyperlink to the calculations behind it! Click for larger image.
Incredible color charts, graphs, and calculations make it trivial to accomplish your tasks. Click for larger image. All calculations are spelled out in their gory details: this is NO black box! Click for larger image.
Find out exactly why your design is not working by reviewing the calculations. Click for larger image. QuickRWall offers both a summary report and a report to satisfy even the most power-hungry building inspectors. Click for larger image.

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.)

A sample of exposed calculations on-screen in the "Checks View" window!

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.

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