Ram Masonry Wall Module - Flanged Walls

Question

Is there a way to design masonry shear walls with flanges? I see that the flange option does not provide a wall design for the flange? 
 Is there a way to design the flange so that reinforcement is ineffective for compression and effective for tension? 
 Also the program seems to limit the flange to less than 6t, and adjusts based on the length of the wall, is this correct?

Karl G · Accepted Answer

You can now model a distributed load along any shell edge. There is no need to model a dummy member or model as a series of point loads at intermediate nodes. See screen capture below for the button that will open the Distributed Loads over Shell Borders worksheet. For your model, I recommend using this feature rather than using members and shell interfaces. 
 
 The RAM Elements Manual only briefly describes shell interfaces. The Help Context (click F1 when in the Shell Interfaces worksheet) has more information. Shell interfaces are intended for a case where a masonry wall is inside a steel frame, and say the all is intended to resist all gravity loads and the frame is intended to resist all lateral loads.

Karl G · Answer

Regarding the odd in-plane moments: 
 
The beams that frame into the walls have a fixed end. As a result, there unintended moment transfer between the members and the shells. To resolve the problem, model a moment release at the beam end that frames into the wall.