I have a couple of questions concerning the rotation of singe angle members. Which command should I use to rotate these angle members? "Beta Angle" or "Beta 45" (or 135 or 225 or whatever your required angle is)? I pose this question because I would have thought the results would have been the same but they are not. The results for "Beta Angle" actually match those of an angle member modeled along its principal axis with no rotation or "Beta 0". I also would have thought the properties for the weld design, namely Sz, Sy, CH & CV, would have changed with this "Beta Angle" command since the member end forces are no longer being applied in the same manner to the weld. Any thoughts?
Local axes are always aligned with the principal axes of cross sections. There is no way to orient the local axes for angles so that it is aligned with the legs.
Hi, working in some models with equal angles and find it hard to retrieve beam end forces from this type of section in STAAD.
Even if we can use this output "member forces - global", if we have non-orthogonal displaced angles in our model (not aligned with global x/y/z), its time-consuming to work results after. Is there any database sections of angles that can have their local axis aligned with angle legs?
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