Hi, About the steel postprocesso

[ECStruct]

Hi,

About the steel postprocessor:

1) Can GTSTRUDL design cold formed steel sections?
2) Does anyone here did any verification of the results of the steel postprocessor? Any bugs to report?

Thanks in advance!
MCerq.

 

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STAAD.Pro 2003 has the provisions :

2.15 Design per American Cold Formed Steel Code



General

Provisions of the AISI Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members, 1996 Edition have been implemented. The program allows design of single (non-composite) members in tension, compression, bending, shear, as well as their combinations using the LRFD Method. For flexural members, the Nominal Section Strength is calculated on the basis of initiation of yielding in the effective section (Procedure I). Strength increase from Cold Work of Forming is a user selectable option.



Cross-Sectional Properties

The user specifies the geometry of the cross-section by choosing one of the section shape designations from the STAAD Steel Tables for cold-formed sections, which mirror the Gross Section Property Tables published in the "Cold- Formed Steel Design Manual", AISI, 1996 Edition.



The Tables are currently available for the following shapes:



Channel with Lips

Channel without Lips

Angle with Lips

Angle without Lips

Z with Lips

Z without Lips