I am using RAM SS Concrete Shear Wall module and keep getting an error in my wall piers. The piers keep failing according to the maximum spacing requirements of 19.5.5.4. But the "actual spacing" noted in my section cut analysis is not consistent

A bit of a typo in your post, I think you meant ACI 318-08 Section 11.9.9.5.  You can control this to some degree using Criteria - Design Criteria - Code options block, Min value of Lw to Consider:

If the value input here is longer than the plan length dimension of your pier, then it will be exempt from the lw/3 max spacing requirement.

A bit of a typo in your post, I think you meant ACI 318-08 Section 11.9.9.5.  You can control this to some degree using Criteria - Design Criteria - Code options block, Min value of Lw to Consider:

If the value input here is longer than the plan length dimension of your pier, then it will be exempt from the lw/3 max spacing requirement.

Thanks Seth. Yes - I meant 11.9.9.5. But that doesn't really fix my issue - I still want it to check the minimum reinforcing, but I want to to correctly reflect the amount of reinforcing in the pier. You can see from my screenshot above that I have bars in the piers at less that 6" O.C. So why does the output say that the "actual" bar spacing is 18" O.C. and that I do not meet section 11.9.9.5 for maximum spacing?

That looks like a defect in the program for manually placed reinforcement. If you can do the same with a bar template using 6" spacing it should be OK, otherwise ignore the warnings, I guess. I can't seem to reproduce the problem with my sample test model, if you can send yours in it would help. See the Secure File upload link bottom left for how to send.

A colleague of mine confirmed you can get an erroneous warning when the rebar is manually edited through the view/update dialog box. My test above was using Assign - Manual reinforcement, and those results looked OK.

Ok - I tried to upload the model. Let me know if you didn't get it.

P.S. this forum layout doesn't work very well in a firefox browser - I couldn't find the reply button. I had to open Internet Explorer to reply.

Thanks. I got your file and I ran it in the latest version 14.06.02.00 and I still see the warnings. After a little digging I found it was actually the 18" spaced bars in the central segment (segment 2) that triggered the warning. Changing the spacing in the middle from 18" to 12" (or 15") solves it. The 15.67" spacing limit stems from 3'-11"/3 value, but that really has no place being checked for the end zone sections. I'll log the defect that way.