https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/158165/russian-sections-sto-aschm-20-93-and-gost-26020-83Hi, In one of my project i have to use Russian sections for the design, In STAAD SS6 has two categories of (Russian sections (GOST), Russian (STO-ASCHM)). when i checked for the properties, it is same. But when i used for the analysis and design. UCen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/514456?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 02 Apr 2019 07:50:51 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:196cf4d7-295b-4220-8f34-a555dc30596fMarcel de Kok<p>You should consider GOST 26020-83 and STO-ASChM 20-93 as totally different standards for steel sections. It may be confusing, notations are sometimes the same, the cross-sectional properties are not!&nbsp;</p> <p>Our experience is that sections as per GOST 26020 are not regular available anymore in Russia. We always design using standard STO-ASChM 20-93.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/472923?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 26 Jul 2018 05:22:15 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a79882fb-6adb-489d-91de-b01e458b76afModestas<p>If you check the properties carefully in the Output file&nbsp;using the TRACK 2 design parameter, you will see that there is a small variations between the section properties so this leads to a small difference between the utilization ratios.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>