Hello,
I am designing a combined footing pile cap on Staad Foundation Advanced v8i and I am wondering why my pile cap is so long. In the shear calculations on the calculation sheet I see a Pcw value but I cannot find where that number comes from. Does anyone know if that is a calculated value and if so how I can check the calculation of that number?
Thanks,
TB
Pcw represents width of the pile cap. It is calculated by the program based on the center to center distance of the piles ( spacing ) and the edge distance. Within the Pile Layout page you will find options to define both spacing and edge distance.