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milkshakelake said:If you're specifying one layer of rebar for negative and positive moment, it'll have to be in the center of the wall, which isn't very efficient. Low d for both directions. That being said, if it works, it works.
jayrod12 said:I probably wouldn't consider it fixed if it was up to me, but that would be situationally dependent. On a single family residence with an 8" wall, I would design the wall as pinned where it gets diaphragm support again and only put bars on the inside face.
On a multi tenant or commercial building with 10" concrete walls, fixed all day with 2 mats of bar, but those walls have 2 mats all the time anyway.