Overview

About the Calculator

The ClearCalcs Deck Footing Design Calculator enables the fast design and analysis of deck footings to ACI 318-19. The calculator provides fast results for bearing capacity under service loads, flexural design, one-way shear design and two-way/punching shear design.

Deck footing design to ACI 318-19 concrete code

Easily design and analyze deck footing design using the latest Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete ACI 318-19.

Fast and accurate deck footing design with easy-to-use input

Easily input pier diameters, embedment depth and height of pier above ground for your pier properties. You can also define the concrete strength and weight classification as well as choose post and connection types comprising of embedded rectangular post, embedded round post, and post with a bracket and bearing plate.

Input applied loads for your deck footing design

The height above ground of lateral loads is applied to all of the lateral loads in the deck footing design. Easily define your lateral shear, vertical, or moment loads for both X- and Y-axis of your deck footing design.

ASD and LRFD load combinations table per ASCE 7-16 and ACI 318-19

Obtain the load combinations for ASD and LRFD for your deck footing design to ASCE 7-16 and ACI 318-19 design code requirements.

Traffic light checks for deck footing design

Get instant results for your pier footing design for bearing capacity under service loads, flexural design, one-way shear design and two-way/punching shear design

Why ClearCalcs?

Frustration to Flow

See how ClearCalcs transforms structural calculations from a tedious, error-prone chore into an efficient, stress-free process.

With spreadsheets and clunky software

Frustration, fuss, and fragile formulas—the old way of engineering calculations that holds you back

Struggle with endless spreadsheets and custom formulas.

Building codes change, but outdated software and spreadsheets don’t.

Triple-check and verify manual input at every turn.

Old software feels like a maze, with unclear settings, limited templates, and rigid interfaces.

With ClearCalcs

Effortless, efficient engineering calculations at your fingertips.

100+ pre-built calculators for different materials.

Every calculation comply with the latest codes and standards.

Forget the worry of “black box” calculations; verify calculators with inline formulas, codes, and checks.

Intuitive tools built to your workflow, plus unmatched customer support.

How It Works

Your code-compliant calculator

Tired of complex calculations? ClearCalcs Calculator Library keeps it simple, secure and code-compliant – so you can calculate with confidence.

Save time with ready-to-use templates for wood, steel, and concrete

ClearCalcs offers an extensive library of easy-to-use calculators for beams, columns, and footings, designed to make structural calculations simpler and faster.

Choose from a wide range of pre-configured beam and column options, complete with automatic member sizing, so you can quickly reach reliable designs and reduce rework.

Beams

Columns

Foundations

Walls

Loads

Dynamically track your load paths from roof to foundation

No need to copy and paste reactions between calculations! If the top calculator's reactions change, the loads being inherited onto the lower calculator will update automatically. This includes all loads such as dead, live, snow, seismic, and wind.

Submit professional reports for permit review

ClearCalcs is not only easy to use, but also easy to check! All calculations follow an easy to understand traffic light check system, with multiple levels of detail available giving you the choice of printing every step of the calculation and all code and standard references, or simply a compact, one-page print out.

Report heading includes your project name and address

Easily upload your organization logo for a professional report

Use custom PDF upload to merge additional documents to your structural calculations

Download a sample report

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Pier Footing Calculator to IBC 2021, ACI 318-19