Good day!I am designing exterior louvers for a certain project. They are designed to carry the code-based wind load.The thing is, it is not of a general section. The section looks like an A-shaped single skin louver with steel angle bars working as interior stiffeners, and the size tapers as it intersects the other member so that the louvers would look like a woven basket around the building. How do I design or create such a section, general and tapered, with internal stiffeners, for such a model? Any suggestions or inputs would be of a great help. Thank you!
If the question is related to STAAD.Pro, there is no way to create such section in the program. If you know its sectional properties, you can provide it in the General section definition. You may model this shape as a sequence of several different constant size segments to approximate it as a tapered section.
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