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RAM Concrete - View/Update Shear Wall Deisgn Warnings

Ashley Adams
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I have 16" concrete shear walls, 14 stories tall. The building is not in a high siesmic region, although we are designing the walls with boundry elements. I have gone through and applied reinforcemtn manually, including the specified boundry regions, the corners of the shear walls. When I go into the view/update dialog>boundary elements>tie/link design...it lists the specified ties and spacing where I specified the boundary elements to be along with spacing below maximum. Although in the boundary elements>extents tab I am not getting any extent evaluations for my section cuts...and I get design warnings along with that, saying "Layeral ties are required to confine vert reinf per 14.3.6" and "max spacing of vert ties per 7.10.5.2". I get these warnings for all of my horizontal section cuts. What is causing these warnings?

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    The boundary element extents are only checked if the wall has been defined as a "Special Reinforced Concrete Structural Wall" in the Criteria - Design Criteria dialog. If the "Ordinary Reinforced Concrete Structural Wall" toggle is selected, then the boundary extents checks are not completed. The tie/link design is completed for either wall type.

    In my test run, I was able to get a tie/link design for a boundary zone within an Ordinary Reinforced Concrete Wall. Based on your description, it appears that the program is not designing these. Please share your model and we will review those design warnings. You can use the Secure File Upload link at the bottom of the page. Please reply back with the file name after it is uploaded.



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    The boundary element extents are only checked if the wall has been defined as a "Special Reinforced Concrete Structural Wall" in the Criteria - Design Criteria dialog. If the "Ordinary Reinforced Concrete Structural Wall" toggle is selected, then the boundary extents checks are not completed. The tie/link design is completed for either wall type.

    In my test run, I was able to get a tie/link design for a boundary zone within an Ordinary Reinforced Concrete Wall. Based on your description, it appears that the program is not designing these. Please share your model and we will review those design warnings. You can use the Secure File Upload link at the bottom of the page. Please reply back with the file name after it is uploaded.



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