I'm having some issues with torsional design in RAM Elements. I have a column that is fixed on top and bottom with a torsional moment applied at a point near midheight of the column. After analysis I am able to see the torsional moment showing up in the "member forces" diagram.
I've run several scenarios and am having issues that will be described below:
So basically for my case, the program appears to be doing what is intended for a WF shape but not an HSS shape. With teh WF shape, we either check torsion w/ DG9 or we ignore it, depending on the checkbox. For the HSS section (which I believe used to design for torsion before the checkbox was even an option), it appears we are not necessarily correct in either case. We either return "NAN" or we check torsion but do not report its effects.
Might be missing something here so let me know what you think!
bump - any thoughts on this Seth Guthrie
What version? AISC 360-10? If you have a test file send it over and that could save me some time in testing.
It looks like we have a problem in Ram Elements version 16, for torsion design, for solid (or closed) sections when using the AISC 360-16 code. We are investigating, but suggest using AISC 360-10 in the meantime.