To access RC-PIER in LEAP users just need to select the Substructure Tab in the Project and hit the Substructure button, as indicated by the red arrows in the screenshot below.

Substructure allows users to define a pier looking at it in an upstation view or in a downstation view. This affects the way cap/column/footing geometry and loads are defined. When pier is defined in upstation view, it is defined looking at the…

By default columns are fixed at bottom. However, program allows users to specify a spring matrix at the bottom of every column if partial fixity is desired. Program provides two options for this. First option allows to define diagonal entries in the spring…

In RC-PIER loads are generated based on dimensions of structural elements of the pier. Making changes to geometry invalidates generated loads. In this case the program will automatically delete existing loads. In this case the designer should re-generate…