Piers

Wall Piers regions are intended for the design of vertical walls or part of walls where the applied loading results in vertical axial forces, major and minor axis bending and horizontal shear forces acting along the width or thickness of the wall pier. The wall pier designs the vertical reinforcing bars in each face of the wall or part of the wall.

On first entering the Wall Reinforcement Design area, the default layout is as shown below.

The left-hand pane displays the design calculations. The central pane displays the graphics view of the model. The normal display controls used in Masterframe work in this area, including pan, zoom and frame view filtering. The right-hand pane contains the controls for adding Piers zones, defining the wall design parameters and design method, carrying out the auto-design and viewing the design results for the selected wall pier.