I am being asked by a plans examiner to provide a check for walls and whether they are classified as "wall piers" per the ACI 318-11 section 21.9.1. Where walls are classified as "wall piers", additional requirements per 21.9.8.1 and in turn 21.6.4 and 21.6.5 are required. Is this check performed by the RAM concrete shearwall module? If so, is there an output related to this section in the report? The RAM Concrete Shearwall Manual does not seem to include any information on this topic.
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