With the new ASTM A1085 spec for HSS you no longer have to use 0.93 times the nominal wall thickness, you can use the nominal wall thickness. When will this be implemented in STAAD? I see it has been in RAM since 2013. I suppose you could use TS sections instead of HSS but, to me, that is just a band aid solution since the TS designation is no longer used.
Sye, whatever happened with this?
Tank : I looked up this enhancement request and this has not been taken up for development as yet. Will check with the product management.
In the meantime I was going to use tube sections but they are not available in the latest version of STAAD. I could use one of the other databases (AISCSections or aiscsections_all_editions) but I was afraid there might be some differences between those and AISC_14.1. I don't want to take the time to check through all that.
I then thought I would copy the tube sections from one of the other databases mentioned into the AISC_14.1 database but I discovered you can only copy one line at time. I didn't want to spend forever doing that.
Could you advise what the best way to incorporate the tube sections into my section choices would be?
I quite frankly don't understand why this hasn't taken on more urgency at Bentley. A1085 has been available for quite some time now. I'll bet a lot of people who are making the switch to A1085 and using STAAD.Pro to design it don't even realize they are not getting their 7% increase in area back.
I would be interested to hear from the user community what you are doing to model A1085 HSS sections.
Just bumped into this post while answering another question on this forum. Just for the records, the A1085 tables are now available in STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition.