Hello there,
I recently came to notice that during design of columns in STAAD SS6, minimum reinforcement of 0.8% is being considered by default (Was not happening in previous versions).
Though this feature is helpful in most of the cases, when the columns are smaller (Specific in case of pedestals), the minimum reinfocement criteria as per IS 456 is only 0.15% (Clause 26.5.3.1 - h of IS 456) whenever longitudinal reinforcement is not considered to account for strength.
Hence coming to the question, is there a way to give the minimum reinforcement value as input (The same is available in case of Design as per ACI 318-11) ?