DDS provides a quick way to produce a code-compliant, fully-documented masonry building design. All this without sacrificing the fast, direct aspect of the design.
The methodology of TMS 403-17 is wide-open and the software has dropped many limitations.įollowing is a list of major improvements: These address one unavoidable liability of the old table-based approach: the lack of transparency and limited ability to verify calculations that were hidden in the tables.Īdditionally, this approach removed the need for many restrictions and over-conservative shortcuts necessary to accommodate the tabulated format.
Equations and logic from ASCE 7, TMS 402 and TMS 403 are shown along with fully-illustrated drawings to provide context.
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