STAAD Commands and Input Instructions
Section 5
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The MEMBER PROPERTY command may be extended to multiple
lines by ending all lines but the last with a space and hyphen (-).
Properties which are specified from built-in property tables
1. General format for standard steel (hot rolled):
⎧ AMERICAN ⎫
⎪ AUSTRALIAN ⎪
⎪ BRITISH ⎪
⎪ CANADIAN ⎪
⎪ CHINESE ⎪
⎨ DUTCH ⎬
⎪ EUROPEAN ⎪
MEMBER PROPERTIES ⎪ FRENCH ⎪
⎪
GERMAN ⎪
⎪ INDIAN ⎪
⎪
JAPANESE
⎪
⎪ KOREAN ⎪
⎪
MEXICAN
⎪
⎪ RUSSIAN ⎪
⎪
SAFRICAN
⎪
⎪ SPANISH
⎪
⎩
VENEZUELAN
⎭
member-list ⎧TABLE type-spec section-name-in-table (additional-spec) ⎭
⎩ASSIGN profile-spec ⎭
AMERICAN, BRITISH, EUROPEAN (etc.) option will instruct the
program to pick up properties from the appropriate steel table. The
default depends on the country of distribution.
a. For type-specs and additional-specs, see Section 5.20.1
b. For ASSIGN profile-spec, see Section 5.20.5
Section 2 of this manual and the sections on steel design for
various countries in the International Codes manual contain
information on the section types which can be assigned for the
various countries named in the above list.
Examples are available in Section 5.20.6.