AISC - LRFD Code check

The beam elements are checked according to the regulations given in

AISC – Manual of  steel construction

Load and Resistance Factor Design

Part 16 Specifications and Codes

Third Edition

2001

The cross section is classified according to Table B5.1. (compact, non compact, or slender section).

The member is checked on following criteria :

A more detailed overview for the used articles of the relevant parts is given in the following table. The chapters marked with “x” are consulted. The chapters marked with (*) have a supplementary explanation the following chapters.

B. Design requirements

 

B1. Gross Area

x

B2. Net Area

(*)

B3. Effective Area for Tension Members

 

B4. Stability

 

B5. Local Buckling

1.Classification of Steel Sections

2.Slender Compression  Elements

3.Slender-Element Compression Sections

(*)

x

x

x

B6. Bracing at Support

 

B7. Limiting Slenderness Ratios

x

B8. Simple Spans

 

B9. End Restraint

 

B10. Proportions of Beams and Girders

 

 

 

D. TENSION MEMBERS

 

D1. Design Tensile Strength

x (*)

D2. Built-up members

 

D3. Pin-Connected Members and Eyebars

 

 

 

E. COLUMN AND OTHER COMPRESSION MEMBERS

 

E1. Effective Length and Slenderness Limitations

1.Effective Length

2.Design by Plastic Analysis

x

x (*)

E2. Design Compressive Strength for Flexural Buckling

x

E3. Design Compressive Strength for Flexural-Torsional Buckling

x

E4. Built-up Members

 

E5. Pin-Connected Compression Members

 

 

 

F. BEAMS AND OTHER FLEXURAL MEMBERS

(*)

F1. Design for Flexure

1.Yielding

2.Lateral-Torsional Buckling

x

x

x

F2. Design for Shear

x

F3. Web-tapered Members

 

F4. Beams and Girders with Web Openings

 

 

 

G. PLATE GIRDERS

x

 

 

H. MEMBERS UNDER COMBINED FORCES AND TORSION

 

H1. Symmetric Members Subject to Bending and Axial Force

x

H2. Unsymmetric Members and Members under Torsion and Combined Torsion, Flexure, Shear and/or Axial Force

x

H3. Alternative Interaction Equation for Members under Combined Stress

 

 

 

APPENDIX B. Design requirements

 

B5. Local Buckling

x

 

 

APPENDIX E. COLUMN AND OTHER COMPRESSION MEMBERS

 

E3. Design Compressive Strength for Flexural-Torsional Buckling

x

 

 

APPENDIX F. BEAMS AND OTHER FLEXURAL MEMBERS

 

F1. Design for Flexure

x

F2. Design for Shear

x

F3. Web-tapered Members

 

 

 

APPENDIX G. PLATE GIRDERS

 

G1. Limitations

 

G2. Design Flexural Strength

x(*)

G3. Design Shear Strength with Tension Field Action

x(*)

G4. Transverse Stiffeners

 

G5. Flexure-Shear Interaction

x(*)

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