WoodWorks® Shearwalls is a software application intended for structural engineers performing lateral wind and seismic design of wood structures that are six or fewer stories in height.
Shearwalls' interactive graphical interface allows you to quickly specify building blocks, walls, openings, roofs, hold-down connectors, loads, and forces.
Shearwalls has automatic routines for
Shearwalls presents its design results in a sequence of organized and easy-to-read tables, and as shear wall diagrams in Elevation view.
Shearwalls 2019 (Version 12) conforms to the 2018 International Building Code (IBC) and the 2018 National Design Specification (NDS). It incorporates the ASCE 7-16 load generation and seismic design procedures, and the AWC Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS 2015) shear wall design provisions.
Shearwalls 11.2 is also available for those users in jurisdictions that have not yet adopted IBC 2018 or who wish to check designs made with the older design codes and standards. Version 11.2 conforms to IBC 2015, NDS 2015, SDPWS 2015, and ASCE 7-10.
WoodWorks should not be used or relied upon for any general or specific application without competent professional examination and verification of its accuracy, suitability and applicability by a licensed professional engineer, designer, or architect.
Every effort has been made to ensure the information and procedures in the program are as complete and as accurate as possible. The Canadian Wood Council, the American Wood Council, and and Acronym Software Inc., do not, however, assume any responsibility for errors or omissions in the software nor for engineering designs or plans prepared from it.