Technical Specifications:

• Design of partially grouted and solid walls using either running or stack bond.
• Design reinforced and unreinforced walls. For reinforced walls, reinforcing may be placed in a single or double layer.
• Design codes include ACI 530-99 Allowable Stress and the IBC 2000 Allowable Stress and Ultimate Strength methods.
• When using IBC 2000 Ultimate Strength Design, Masonry Wall performs a P-Delta analysis, as required by code.
• Walls can be cantilevered or supported at the top and bottom. Support conditions at the bottom can be fixed, partially fixed or pinned. Masonry Wall automatically adjusts the wall’s effective length factor (k-factor) for the selected support condition.
• Loads can include self-weight, axial loads (w/wo eccentricity), equivalent fluid pressure due to soil, uniform and concentrated lateral loads on the wall and seismic loads.

• Seismic loads (equivalent static) are computed using IBC 2000.
• Masonry Wall automatically uses the load combinations required by the selected design code, however the user may modify the load factors to define their own combinations.
• Walls can include a parapet, which is also designed.
• Units can be US Customary or metric.
• Output includes required bar spacing for various bar sizes or, for the case of unreinforced walls, spacing of grouted cells.
• Graphic outputs include an axial load-moment diagram (ACI and IBC working stress designs) and a plot/print of the loaded wall.
• NEW: Dynamic graphics update whenever an input is entered or edited.
• NEW: Reports are generated in Microsoft Word or any other word processing software.
• NEW: Double click an input file to launch the program and open the file.