Member Check to AISC 360-10 and AISC Design Guide 9https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/106336/member-check-to-aisc-360-10-and-aisc-design-guide-9Hi, I have some questions regarding member check to AISC 360-10. So I was doing some check on a simple member (attached output file), and then I checked it using hand calculation to verify the numbers (I need to know how the program do simpler problemen-USTelligent Community 12RE: Member Check to AISC 360-10 and AISC Design Guide 9https://communities.bentley.com/thread/320813?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:48:25 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:4a2ff606-ea2c-4147-be3f-18e21acda715BiswatoshRegarding your second query, AISC 360-10 does not follow the first formula that you have cited in your illustration. It follows the second one one shown in your illustration.<div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: Member Check to AISC 360-10 and AISC Design Guide 9https://communities.bentley.com/thread/320804?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:34:52 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fc9d01c6-d165-43f5-8a38-e2c3817fb5adPodianko SuryaThank you for the reply. Please do let me know if there&#39;s anything regarding the query 2 as well. :)<div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: Member Check to AISC 360-10 and AISC Design Guide 9https://communities.bentley.com/thread/320799?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:47:55 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:85f78317-8ee0-4fff-869d-9859b1dda63dBiswatoshRegarding your query 1, your point is correct. The software is calculating the shear area in minor axis as 2/3 x Total area of the flanges. But according to the section G7 ( Chapter G) of AISC, it should use the full areas of the flanges, Aw=(bf*tf). Our development team is already aware of this fact and they are working on to rectify this in the forthcoming Staad release.<div style="clear:both;"></div>