American Aluminum sections - Capacity tables available per ADM?

[AK4S]

Similar to the steel manual, Are there capacity tables available for American Aluminum sections? I am trying to explore multiple configurations and currently using section properties and procedure from the Aluminum Design Manual (ADM), proceeding with hand calculations. But with the level of checks required, I am not able to explore multiple options.
STAAD performs Aluminium design, but it seems to only have ADM-1994 for code check ( I ran few models to compare with examples from ADM 2010 and seems to be a hit or miss. Some cases results match, for some they are drastically off) So not really sure if I can rely on it.

I am new to designing with Aluminum. Any guidance is appreciated.

 

[JAE]

We've used the ADM a bit but find it VERY tedious. I believe they provide some helpful tables but we usually defer out to our RISA software to do the designs...assuming they are typical structural shapes. If the shapes are extruded window frames then we have to rely on the manufacturer or spend a lot of time with hand calcs.

 

[AK4S]

@JAE: Thanks for the response. Unfortunately I do not have access to RISA. These are typical structural shapes, tubes/pipes/I-beam and I am not able to switch sections easily since the capacity calculations are drastically different per ADM and hand calcs becoming very tedious.

 

[JAE]

The only thing then would be to write up your own spreadsheet to check more easily.

Or find one online. Below are several that appear to offer design spreadsheets.
Not sure if any of these are legit or safe:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/165920739/ALUMINUM-DESIGN-xlsx

https://www.theengineeringcommunity.org/aluminium-design-capacity-spreadsheet/

https://digitalcanalstructural.com/aluminum-design/

http://www.engineering-international.com/

 

[AK4S]

Thanks for the links JAE. I was a bit pressed with time, so just pushed through with the hand calcs. Luckily some guesses on the section selection worked!
The webpage (

http://www.engineering-international.com/)

shared has quite a number of interesting spreadsheets, but my excel hangs up everytime I try to open one.

 

[JAE]

That doesn't sound good.