May 24, 2011
How to Apply a Tapered Load to Plates in RISA-3D
It’s easy to apply tapered surface loads to plates in RISA-3D by stepping up the loads from one level to the next.
May 23, 2011
How to Apply Notional Loads in RISA-3D
In RISA-3D you can automatically apply notional loads to your structure to comply with your steel code (such as AISC 360). Notional loads take into account a building’s actual out-of-plumbness by adding de-stabilizing lateral loads. The AISC 360 recommends either 0.2% or 0.3% of the vertical loads...
May 10, 2011
Are You Receiving Instability Warnings for Your Truss Model in…
When running a truss model in RISA-3D or RISA-2D, it’s quite common to receive an instability warning, but these can be easily resolved by following a few simple rules.
May 3, 2011
How Do I Consider Welded Aluminum Connections in RISA-3D?
In Aluminum design, the welded areas have a decreased material strength and RISA-3D can assign any material strength to the members based on the Material spreadsheet.
April 20, 2011
Refining Area Load Distribution in RISA-3D
After solving a model with Member Area Loads, RISA-3D will automatically create Transient Basic Load Cases that allow the user to verify load distribution.
April 18, 2011
Using Sum of Reactions in RISA-3D
RISA-3D will now check your model for errors by summing the reactions in your model and comparing them to the applied loads. This occurs for the global X, Y, and Z directions. If RISA identifies that the reactions do not equal the applied loads then the software will show a warning message to the...
April 13, 2011
How Do I Change the Member Type in RISA-3D?
In RISA-3D, there are many different applications that require you to define Member Type in your model including AISC 15th Edition steel design, Seismic Design, Concrete design, and models that will be transferred to Autodesk Revit.
April 6, 2011
What are the Unbalanced Forces on Beams?
V-Brace frames in RISA-3D seismic design have unbalanced forces shown on both the beams and braces. As brace frames displace under lateral loads, one brace will buckle and its force decreases while the other brace in tension will have an increase of force until it reaches yield.
March 31, 2011
How RISA-3D Handles Single Angles
The bending and axial code checks for single angles differ somewhat from other shape types, because single angles behave quite differently in bending and compression depending on how they are braced along their length.