Concrete Wall Panel - Design
The concrete wall panel element allows you to easily model, analyze, and design concrete walls for in plane
- The 2022, 2019, 2014, 2011, 2008 and 2005 Editions of ACI 318.
- The 2014 Edition of CSA A23.3.
Note:
- Unless otherwise specified, all code references below are to ACI 318-14.
- Walls designed in RISA meet all of the requirements for Ordinary Concrete Shear Walls.
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ACI 318-19 (22) re-approves previous ACI 318-19 without any technical changes, therefore all references in the help documentation and in the program continue to use ACI 318-19.
Here we will explain the concrete-specific inputs and design considerations. For general wall panel information, see the Wall Panels topic. For concrete wall design rule information, see the Concrete Wall - Design Rules topic. For concrete wall results interpretation, see the Concrete Wall Results topic.