Respected all, I am working on project which has foundation consist of Pile Caps, Tie beam and tie slab. The problem which I felt is that when I see reinforcement of tie beam it shows me too much reinforcement like 30-#8 in top and around 20-#8 with beam size 18"X72"(Depth as per Pile Cap Thickness), all the reinforcement is showing in SAFE. But when I resized the tie beam size to 12"X24" it shows very lesser reinforcement. Now the question arises in my mind is that what to do with size of tie beam?
Can I reduce the size of tie beam if yes then can some one provide code backing or authentic background?
or if not possible then I can placed the same reinforcement as provided by SAFE.