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.

masonry design, masonry wall, Eurocode, British Standard, Irish Standard, cavity wall, brickwork column, wind post, laterally loaded masonry wall, masonry wall with openings, yield line analysis
Overview

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.

Masonry wall opening settings for design

It also allows for bed joint reinforcement, piers in the wall, and lateral line loads (racking support).

Masonry wall bed-reinforcement

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
Features

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

Design Codes

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
PowerPad Limits

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
Output

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



Licencing

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.

Stand Alone Product

Operates Fully Standalone

Part of Building Design Suite

Not part of the Building Design Suite

Included in PowerPad

Limited version included in PowerPad

Integrated Product

Operates Fully Standalone only

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