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American Steel Design
Section
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2.1 Design Operations
STAAD contains a broad set of facilities for designing structural
members as individual components of an analyzed structure. The
member design facilities provide the user with the ability to carry
out a number of different design operations. These facilities may
be used selectively in accordance with the requirements of the
design problem. The operations to perform a design are:
Specify the members and the load cases to be considered in the
design.
Specify whether to perform code checking or member
selection.
Specify design parameter values, if different from the default
values.
These operations may be repeated by the user any number of times
depending upon the design requirements.
Steel Design may be performed based on the following codes:
AISC-ASD, AISC-LRFD and AASHTO. A brief description of
each is presented in the following pages.
Currently, STAAD supports steel design of wide flange, S, M, HP
shapes, tees, angle, double angle, channel, double channel, pipes,
tubes, beams with cover plate and composite beams (I shapes with
concrete slab on top.