MasterKey: Masonry Design
Fast, intuitive and advanced masonry design software. Quickly design reinforced and unreinforced masonry wall panels and columns using state-of-the-art technologies. Design to Eurocode 6 and BS 5628.
Standalone module, requiring no other MasterSeries modules
MasterSeries: Masonry Design software provides a powerful and user-friendly interface for the design of masonry walls and columns to Eurocode 6 & British Standard 5628.
Utilising advanced automated yield line analysis, the comprehensive range of design features gives you the flexibility to model any type of masonry wall Panel including single leaf or cavity walls, with wind posts, concentrated point loads, and up to 10 openings.
It also allows for bed joint reinforcement, piers in the wall, and lateral line loads (racking support).
Now with 118 manufacturer's bed-reinforcement products built in.
MasterSeries: Masonry Design also allows you to efficiently design freestanding Columns with concentric & eccentric point loads
"MasterSeries Masonry is brilliant. No more dividing walls into approximate sub-panels, now we can model real world combinations of doors/windows. Every day we are saving design time and making thinner walls work."
- Antony Freeman, Andy Mann Structural Design
State-of-the-art advanced automated yield line analysis software, delivering dramatically improved design efficiency in many cases of masonry walls with openings.
- Stiffened and unstiffened single-leaf and cavity walls
- Variable support conditions, including partially fixed
- Switch between design codes to compare results
- Concentrated vertical load analysis and design
- Add lateral line loads at any point on the wall
- Design for up to 10 overlapping openings
- Load bearing and infill wall panels
- Opening span direction options
- Pier in tension or compression
- In-plane loads for shear walls
- Include multiple wind posts -
- Masonry walls and columns
- Clay Bricks, Concrete Bricks & Blocks
- Reinforced Masonry Design using Bed-reinforcement - New, now with 118 manufacturer's products built in
Bed Reinforcement
MasterSeries: Masonry Design provides a powerful and extremely user-friendly software program for the design of masonry walls and columns to:
- British Standard 5628 Parts 1 and 2
- Eurocode 6-1-1
- IS 325
Full Eurocode implementation for
- EuroCode Default Values
- UK
- Ireland
- Belgium
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Sweden
The PowerPad version of MasterSeries: Masonry Design includes
- Variable support conditions, including partially fixed
- Stiffened and unstiffened single-leaf and cavity walls
- Switch between Design Codes to compare results
- Two-way, Vertical & Free standing Walls
- Load bearing and infill wall panels
- In-plane loads for Shear Walls
- Pier in tension or compression
- Design to BS and Euro Codes
- Masonry walls and columns
- Lateral wind load
The full version of MasterSeries: Masonry Design also gives you
- Stiffened and unstiffened single-leaf and cavity walls
- Add lateral line loads at any point on the wall.
- Concentrated vertical load analysis and design.
- Design for up to 10 overlapping openings.
- Advanced automated yield line analysis
- Include multiple wind posts.
- Bed-reinforcement
You can print MasterSeries: Masonry Design output calculations and graphics to any Windows printer and to PDF. Users of PowerPad, Building Design Suite or Office Tools, can also export results directly to Microsoft Word.
Sample output: View PDF
MasterKey Masonry Design is available to purchase as a traditional Perpetual Licence or you can rent as a low-cost Subscription Licence
Subscription licences are from as low as £28 GBP + VAT equivalent per month, when purchased on an annual basis
All licences are networked single concurrent user licences with multiple registered users sharing access, allowing maximum use of each licence.
No locking of licences to a PC, or complex licence transfer processes.
Operates Fully Standalone
Not part of the Building Design Suite
Limited version included in PowerPad
Operates Fully Standalone only
The essential structural analysis and design suite for small building projects.