No of Hor. Rebar Leg That Are Effective to Resist Shear Vux
Number of tie leg or hor. hair pin leg in one single layer around the shear key
pocket for resisting concrete shear breakout.

nleg x nlay would be the total number of hor. rebar used in concrete shear
breakout resistance calculation.

In the sample shear key reinforcement detail below there are 4 tie legs in
both directions.
In this sample case,  user can input  nleg= 4