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STAAD Commands and Input Instructions
Section 5
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5.19 User Steel Table Specification
Purpose
STAAD allows the user to create and use customized Steel Section
Table (s) for Property specification, Code checking and Member
Selection. This set of commands may be used to create the table(s)
and provide necessary data.
General format:
START USER TABLE
TABLE i
1
(f
n
)
section-type
section-name
property-spec
END
where,
i
1
= table number (1 to 99). During the analysis
process, the data in each user provided table
is stored in a corresponding file with an
extension .U0?. For example, the data of the
5th table is stored in .U05. The first part of
the input file name is the same as that of the
STAAD input file. These files are located in
the same working directory as the input file.
Hence, they may later be used as external
user provided tables for other input files.
f
n
= external file name containing the section
type, name and corresponding properties (up
to 72 characters)
section-type = a steel section name including: WIDE
FLANGE, CHANNEL, ANGLE, DOUBLE
ANGLE, TEE, PIPE, TUBE, GENERAL,
ISECTION & PRISMATIC.