Overview

About the Calculator

The ClearCalcs Wind Bracing Calculator to AS1684.2 is a quick and easy tool for performing wind bracing analysis and design to Australian codes. With customisation options, intuitive interface and a broad selection of commonly used bracing types, users can design their structural bracing system while considering various site situations. Ensure the safety and stability of your structure with fast and accurate designs provided within minutes by ClearCalcs Wind Bracing Calculator.

Wind bracing analysis and design to Australian standards

Quickly and accurately design wind bracing systems with ClearCalcs Wind Bracing Calculator incorporating the AS 1684.2:2021 Residential timber-framed construction, Part 2: Non-cyclonic areas with wind information from the AS 4055:2021 Wind loads for housing. You can be confident your projects comply with the National Construction Code (NCC) 2022.

Easy-to-use wind bracing analysis and design

Easily input the key wind properties, such as wind pressures and wind class, as well as your roof types (vertical surfaces or sloped roofs) to obtain the racking force and demand of your wind bracing systems.

Fast analysis of racking force and demand

Quickly obtain the values for your area of elevation to obtain your wind bracing system's racking force and demand with easy-to-use building geometry inputs.

Intuitive and customisable structural bracing system options

Choose either one-side or to-side sheeted nominal bracing for your wall framing design and select from structural wall bracing types in accordance with AS 1684.2:2021 Residential timber-framed construction, Part 2: Non-cyclonic areas.

Color-coded utilization checks for your wind bracing design

Verify your wind bracing calculations at a glance with an easy color-coded traffic light system to check your wind pressure, racking force, demand, and capacity with or without nominal bracing.

Why ClearCalcs?

Frustration to Flow

See how ClearCalcs transforms structural calculations from a tedious, error-prone chore into an efficient, stress-free process.

With spreadsheets and clunky software

Frustration, fuss, and fragile formulas—the old way of engineering calculations that holds you back

Struggle with endless spreadsheets and custom formulas.

Building codes change, but outdated software and spreadsheets don’t.

Triple-check and verify manual input at every turn.

Old software feels like a maze, with unclear settings, limited templates, and rigid interfaces.

With ClearCalcs

Effortless, efficient engineering calculations at your fingertips.

100+ pre-built calculators for different materials.

Every calculation comply with the latest codes and standards.

Forget the worry of “black box” calculations; verify calculators with inline formulas, codes, and checks.

Intuitive tools built to your workflow, plus unmatched customer support.

How It Works

Your code-compliant calculator

Tired of complex calculations? ClearCalcs Calculator Library keeps it simple, secure and code-compliant – so you can calculate with confidence.

Save time with ready-to-use templates for wood, steel, and concrete

ClearCalcs offers an extensive library of easy-to-use calculators for beams, columns, and footings, designed to make structural calculations simpler and faster.

Choose from a wide range of pre-configured beam and column options, complete with automatic member sizing, so you can quickly reach reliable designs and reduce rework.

Beams

Columns

Foundations

Walls

Loads

Dynamically track your load paths from roof to foundation

No need to copy and paste reactions between calculations! If the top calculator's reactions change, the loads being inherited onto the lower calculator will update automatically. This includes all loads such as dead, live, snow, seismic, and wind.

Submit professional reports for permit review

ClearCalcs is not only easy to use, but also easy to check! All calculations follow an easy to understand traffic light check system, with multiple levels of detail available giving you the choice of printing every step of the calculation and all code and standard references, or simply a compact, one-page print out.

Report heading includes your project name and address

Easily upload your organization logo for a professional report

Use custom PDF upload to merge additional documents to your structural calculations

Download a sample report

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Wind Bracing Design (Version 3)