I'm doing some design work on SAP 2000 involving steel I-beams supporting uniform distributed loads. As I'm still quite new to the software, I was wondering how accurate SAP 2000 checks for LTB when designing/auto-selecting beams. I intend on doing some verification models of simply support...
I am trying to select appropriate steel beam sizes for a composite floor system that I am designing. How would I go about this if I were using Sap 2000 as my design tool? I understand that ETABS has more design capabilities when it comes to composite design but it isn't available to me right...