EXAMPLE 2. FORMAL STUDY METAL CONSTRUCTION

EXAMPLE 2: 'DESIGN OF A METAL STRUCTURE' 58 6.3 Dimensioning of steel sections: In the "Dimensioning" module, the "Iron" field includes the commands related to the solution of the metallic sections with the adequacy check, the buckling check and the check of the connections. 6.3.1 Control of metallic sections: The Cross-section check option is used to check the adequacy of metal cross-sections. Using the command, the following dialog box appears. The cross-section check is done globally for all elements in a layer. For each intensive quantity, the program identifies the element with the worst value for that quantity. The first column is the layers that exist in this study and in the following columns are the types of metallic cross-sections that exist in these layers. In this particular