inquiry in ETAB program 1

[swelm]

I have question in this program


1- when i make design for building by hand and check the result by e tab i found big differet in the value for the momenet , shear and deflection for the beams

so do you think to use the value from the program and use it in my design

 

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Yeah, I'd forgotten about that one. I guess it happened already.

Here's a good one that I discovered:

I was trying to use my favorite program to do some buckling analyses and I put in an angle. Any hope of that one coming out right? No way. It doesn't even know that rz exists. It sure as heck spit out answers for me, though, about the x and y axes. Without stopping to verify the axial strength of one of the members, an engineer will miss that one for sure--and how simple is that example?!? This is one of the fairly high end programs, so I assume that the others probably miss this too.