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One column with two different sections in the total height.

Thread starter X4vier
Start date Jun 21, 2022

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Jun 21, 2022

X4vier

Civil/Environmental

Hi, I'm modeling One column with two different sections in the total height.
I can see SAP2000 assigns a higher than 1.0 length factor for the column, but only in the major axis, as my column have any kind of restraint in the minor axis. Is that an error, or there is a way to indicate to sap2000 that a column is fully unbracing the total height even if it has two different shapes?

Thanks.