Correct me if I am wrong. It seems to me that if the remainder of a moment frame is designed around a pinned column base, then the only time the column base will actually see a moment is due to a deflection in the connection in the remainder of the moment frame. My conclusion being that the...
Catia is probably the way to go if the funding will support it. I have used Catia, ProE, Solidworks, Rhino, AutoCad, and a variety of other basic drafting programs. A friend of mine works at a company that just converted from Solidworks to SolidEdge (much to his chagrin). Solidworks seemed to...
Pinning a joint is just idealizing the connection. Treating the connection as a pinned location will just transfer the loads and moments to another location. In this case you make the column top take the moments rather than the column base. This is a common case for the design of the moments...
If you don't want to use the protection options available you can always code a button to copy from another sheet and hide the sheet with the actual formula on it.
I work for a company that builds a lot of steel trellis structures. If you apply the wind pressure as if the area were solid I'm sure you will find that your structure is already over designed. Usually we use a percentage of the pressure as a percentage of the open area per unit area.
I am trying to find a calculation for plate bending for a plate that is constrained by a HSS tube welded to it with the fasteners inside the tube constraint.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks
