Steel Member Design

Overview

Design of steel members to:

Output options

Contouring of utilization ratios
Tabular output of utilization ratios and verbose and brief calculations
Colour highlighting of errors and warnings in calculations
Automatic calculation of effective buckling lengths based on specified member restraints

Steel member design features include:

Results are available in various forms, including numeric utilization ratios and calculations as rich text.
The different forms of result available mean that the user can avoid information overload, but can still audit the calculations at a very basic level when appropriate.
Utilization ratios can be plotted (contoured) on the model just like any other numeric result, so enabling rapid understanding of which parts of a structure are overstressed or are over designed.
Calculation results are marked up in colour to draw attention to problems and important results within the calculations. They are available in both brief and verbose formats.
Restraints can be specified in detail so that the program can evaluate the effective buckling lengths of complex multi-span beams. Alternatively, the user can specify the effective lengths (as is common in other steelwork design packages). Assistance is available to set up restraints, which are necessarily more complex than restraints used in analysis models.