Steel Design for RSTAB 9 | Features

Using the Steel Design add-on, you can efficiently perform stability analysis, where the definition of effective lengths plays a crucial role. In the input dialog box, you define nodal supports and effective length factors required for the calculations.

For easy documentation and transparent checks, you can display the nodal supports and the resulting segments with the corresponding effective length factors directly in the RFEM/RSTAB work window. This ensures clear visualization and facilitates the control of the input data.

The add-on provides a comprehensive serviceability design of steel structures, in particular the calculation of deflections, which are compared with standard-compliant or manually adjusted limit values. This allows for precamber to be taken into account in the deflection analysis. Depending on the type of design situation, different limit values can be defined, and you can manually adjust reference lengths and segmentations.

The calculation can be performed for both the initial and the deformed structural system. You can also perform additional detailed checks, such as the limitation of web breathing according to EN 1993-2, depending on the selected design standard.

RFEM/RSTAB provides a graphical display of the results, including the ratio of deformation to the limit values. The output is fully integrated in the RFEM/RSTAB printout report, which allows for clear and efficient documentation.