Beams can have up to 18 spans with pinned, fixed or free (cantilever) ends.
Loads include up to 40 concentrated and linear loads about the member’s strong axis.
Automatic load combinations using ASCE 7-05.
Live load patterning for both LRFD and ASD designs.
Separate bracing can be input for bottom and top flanges of beams.
Beam Design offers the following AISC codes: 14th Edition ASD, 14th Edition LRFD, 13th Edition ASD, 13th Edition LRFD, 9th Edition ASD and 1st Edition LRFD.
Designs beams for strong-axis bending, shear, deflections and dimensional constraints.
Input and output are in US customary units.
Printable shear, moment and deflection diagrams.
Reports are created in Microsoft Rich Text Format, which is native to Microsoft Word and recognized by nearly all word processors.
Loads include up to 48 transverse concentrated forces (transverse and axial), linear loads and end moments applied about either bending axis.
The detail of the report is unmatched, by even textbooks, making it a great tool for engineers learning the new 13th Edition code. The report lists what AISC equation was used, displays the equation and reports the calculated value for each step.
Steel Beam/Column’s procedure reports include a step by step listing of the computations used to check or design the member.
Standard load combinations using ASCE 7-05.
Improved beam optimization engine no longer requires Width inputs to optimize tubes and angles.
The Beam-Column Design offers the following AISC codes: 14th Edition ASD, 14th Edition LRFD, 13th Edition ASD, 13th Edition LRFD, 9th Edition ASD and 2nd Edition LRFD. Explain ASD vs LRFD to a dumb ME - Structural engineering The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-partisan, not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States.
Beam-Columns are designed for axial forces, bi-axial bending, shear, deflections and dimensional constraints.