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Hot-Rolled Beam-Column Designer
Combined axial & biaxial bending check
v1.5
Code
AISC 360-16 (LRFD)
AISC 360-16 (ASD)
AS 4100 — 1998 (LSD)
BS EN 1993-1-1 — coming soon
Units
US Customary (kip, in, ksi)
SI (kN, mm, MPa)
Shape Family
W — Wide flange
M — Misc. I-shape
S — American Standard I
HP — Bearing pile
C — American Standard channel
MC — Miscellaneous channel
L — Single angle
2L — Double angle
HSS — Rect / Square
HSS — Round
Pipe
UB — Universal Beam
UC — Universal Column
PFC — Parallel Flange Channel
EA — Equal Angle
UA — Unequal Angle
RHS — Rectangular HS
SHS — Square HS
CHS — Circular HS
Section
Required Strengths (Factored)
Axial — P
u
+ compression, − tension
kip
Major moment — M
ux
about strong axis
kip·ft
Minor moment — M
uy
about weak axis
kip·ft
Shear — V
u
major axis
kip
Material & Bracing
Yield strength — F
y
ksi
Modulus — E
ksi
L
x
· x-axis buckling length
unbraced length for strong-axis flex. buckling
ft
L
y
· y-axis buckling length
unbraced length for weak-axis flex. buckling
ft
L
t
· torsional buckling length
unbraced length for E4 torsional buckling
ft
L
b
· LTB unbraced length
for F2 lateral-torsional buckling
ft
K
x
eff. length factor, x-axis
−
K
y
eff. length factor, y-axis
−
K
t
eff. length factor, torsion
−
C
b
· LTB modifier
1.0 conservative
−
P-δ Amplification (App. 8)
Apply B
1
amplifier
uncheck if M
u
already includes P-δ
−
C
mx
· about strong axis
0.6 − 0.4(M
1
/M
2
); 1.0 if transverse load
−
C
my
· about weak axis
same as C
mx
−
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