Suggestion on Detailed Design of shearwall

Horizontal rebar:

1) Horizontal rebar is from ETABS shear design. It could be read from summary of shearwall
design.

Boundary element length:

1) Boundary element length could read from ETABS design summary of shearwall. A bigger
fixed value for wall at different storey could be chosen. For example, for P1, Left and right,
we use 1200 (embedded column length).
Vertical rebar:

1) Current ‘uniform reinforcing’ is for preliminary design only. So CANNOT directly read the
results and the required rebar percentage is only for reference.

2) Use menu ‘design – shearwall design – define general pier sections’. It seems that ‘start from
existing wall pier’ could not be used because rebar could not modify separately.
3) Manually change/draw rebar. For boundary element, heavy rebar are required. For web, rebar
could be lighter. (Both boundary element and middle embedded column should be treated as
column and rebar percentage more than 1%. Boundary element rebar could be bigger because
it helps bending)

4) Use menu ‘design – shearwall design – assign pier sections -gerenal reinforcing’. Rebar to be
checked. So iteration has to be done for rebar manually input.

Confinement transverse link in Boundary element:

1) For boundary element, put confinement transverse link full height. In my opinion, middle
embedded column only requires normal link (not for seismic).