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American Steel Design
Section 2
2-2
2.2 Member Properties
For specification of member properties of standard American steel
sections, the steel section library available in STAAD may be
used. The syntax for specifying the names of built-in steel shapes
is described in the next section.
2.2.1 Built - in Steel Section Library
The following sections describe specification of steel sections
from the AISC (9th Edition, 1989) Steel Tables.
AISC Steel Table
Almost all AISC steel shapes are available for input. Following are
the descriptions of all the types of sections available:
Wide Flanges (W shapes)
All wide flange sections as listed in AISC/LRFD-89 are available
the way they are written, e.g. W10X49, W21X50, etc.
20 TO 30 TA ST W10X49
33 36 TA ST W18X86
C, MC, S, M, HP Shapes
The above shapes are available as listed in AISC (9th Edition)
without decimal points. For example, C8X11.5 will be input as
C8X11 and S15X42.9 will be input as S15X42, omitting the
decimal weights. (Exception: MC6X151 for MC6X15.1 and
MC6X153 for MC6X15.3.)