Good day, How do i assign lateral restraint on a steel column using bs 5950?
i just want to design a 10m steel column, but it is laterally restrained at every 2m intervals. how do i apply the select commands
thank you
There are some parameters which will help you to assign the criteria. They are Ly, Lz, UNL & UNF. Please see the below link from help file to know more.
C:\Program Files\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition\Help\GUID-A01D284B-0114-4F2E-852F-1856C7F8C44E.html
okay,
STAAD SPACE START JOB INFORMATION END JOB INFORMATION INPUT WIDTH 79 UNIT METER KN JOINT COORDINATES 1 0 0 0; 2 0 10 0; 3 0 2 0; 4 0 4 0; 5 0 6 0; 6 0 8 0; MEMBER INCIDENCES 1 1 3; 2 3 4; 3 4 5; 4 5 6; 5 6 2; DEFINE MATERIAL START ISOTROPIC STEEL E 2.05e+08 POISSON 0.3 DENSITY 76.8195 ALPHA 1.2e-05 DAMP 0.03 TYPE STEEL STRENGTH RY 1.5 RT 1.2 END DEFINE MATERIAL MEMBER PROPERTY BRITISH 1 TO 5 TABLE ST UC152X152X23 CONSTANTS MATERIAL STEEL ALL SUPPORTS 1 FIXED LOAD 1 LOADTYPE None TITLE LOAD CASE 1 SELFWEIGHT Y -1 LIST ALL JOINT LOAD 2 FY -20 MY -10 MZ 15 PERFORM ANALYSIS PARAMETER 1 CODE BS5950 SGR 0 ALL CHECK CODE ALL FINISH