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    Please help! Designing a simple truss using the Aluminum Code analysis. The initial analysis produced utilization ratios where the "Clause" references AISC's H1-3 Equation and H2-1 Equation. This led to revise my analysis commands so that it was analyzing…
  • Aluminum Design

    Hi since Staad uses ADM 1994 for Aluminum design, should i use servise/unfactored loads or should i use factored loads? Please help me on this
  • Aluminum Design in Ram Structural System

    Is STAAD the only suite that allows for aluminum design? I currently run the RAM Structural System and I am quite happy with it. Is there any way to design aluminum through RAM, or do I need to go learn STAAD?
  • Aluminum Design

    Hello, I used the aluminum code and got this message for design output. This is the syntax I used: PARAMETER 1 CODE ALUMINUM ALCLAD 1 ALL STRUCTURE 1 ALL CHECK CODE ALL What am I missing? Thanks!