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American Steel Design
Section 2
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the particular design requirements of an analysis, some or all of
these parameter values may have to be changed to exactly model
the physical structure. For example, by default the KZ (k value in
local z-axis) value of a member is set to 1.0, while in the real
structure it may be 1.5. In that case, the KZ value in the program
can be changed to 1.5, as shown in the input instructions (Section
6). Similarly, the TRACK value of a member is set to 0.0, which
means no allowable stresses of the member will be printed. If the
allowable stresses are to be printed, the TRACK value must be set
to 1.0.
The parameters PROFILE, DMAX and DMIN are only used for
member selection.