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Analysis of Steel Bars

with STATIK



STATIK offers the analysis of steel bars as postprocessing of calculated section force results. The calculations are performed by modules of the program AVENA a licence of which is needed.


For steel bar analyses additional member properties like type of support, buckling length and distance between lateral supports are needed. They are specified in a special tabsheet of the member dialog.

Section Forces

  • The load cases needed for the analysis can be defined via the standard envelope specifications on the base of which all possible loading combinations are generated. Their results and possibly also results from response specturum analyses are transferred to AVENA.

Verification

  • The resulting exploitation rates are shown graphically and, in combination with section forces and effective loading combinations also in tabular form. Members with an exploitation rate of less or equal 1.0 meet all requested proofs.
  • Each result can be verified in detail by a direct call to AVENA, which is suppied with all needed structural and loading data.

Design

  • The best profile that meets all the required proofs is determined for all members. It is chosen out of the series of profiles defind by the cross section of a member.