Helping engineers around the globe design coldformed steel
® Helping engineers around the globe design cold-formed steel structures since 1987 RSG Software, Inc. 2803 NW Chipman Rd Lee’s Summit, MO 64081 www. rsgsoftware. com
Sections • Any cold-formed shape • Composite shapes such as back-to-back Cees • Open and closed shapes • Cylindrical tubes • Elements with holes • Section libraries • US and metric units • Import/export DXF files • ASTM carbon steel and stainless steel materials • Custom materials • Strength increase from cold-work of forming
Analysis • Continuous beams, lapped members, beam-columns • Several support types • Continuously braced flanges • Axial and lateral loads • Load combinations for ASCE 7, IBC, RMI • Custom combinations • Shear and moment diagrams
Output • AISI North American Specification Editions: 2012, 2010, 2007, 2004, 2001, 1999 • Full and net properties • Torsional properties • Effective section properties • ASD, LRFD, and LSD strengths for tension, compression, bending, shear, web-crippling • Interaction equations for axial/bending, bending/shear, bending/web-crippling • Calculation trace
Direct Strength Method (DSM) • Elastic buckling analysis using finite strip method • Apply buckling load ratios to section characteristics • Calculate design strength using DSM provisions
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