Cross-Section Information of Section Areas

The material allocation for hybrid SHAPE‑THIN cross‑sections can be selected easily in RFEM and RSTAB. The prerequisite for this is the allocation of different materials to the cross‑section elements in SHAPE‑THIN.

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General thin-walled cross-sections often have asymmetrical geometries. The principal axes of such sections are then not parallel to the horizontally and vertically aligned axes Y and Z. When determining the cross-section properties, the angle α between the center-of-gravity axis y and the principal axis u is determined in addition to the principal axis-related moments of inertia.

The material database in RFEM, RSTAB and SHAPE-THIN contains steels according to the Australian standard AS/NZS 4600:2005.

• Modeling of the cross-section via elements, sections, arcs, and point elements
• Expansible library of material properties, yield strengths, and limit stresses
• Section properties of open, closed, or non-connected cross-sections
• Ideal section properties of cross-sections consisting of different materials
• Determination of weld stresses in fillet welds
• Stress analysis including design of primary and secondary torsion
• Check of c/t-ratios
• Effective cross-sections according to
  • EN 1993-1-5 (including stiffened buckling panels according to Section 4.5)
  • EN 1993-1-3
  • EN 1999-1-1
  • to DIN 18800-2
• Classification according to
  • EN 1993-1-1
  • EN 1999-1-1
• Interface with MS Excel to import and export tables
• Printout report

All results can be evaluated and visualized in an appealing numerical and graphical form. Selection functions facilitate the targeted evaluation.

The printout report corresponds to the high standards of RFEM and rstab/rstab-9/what-is-rstab RSTAB. Modifications are updated automatically.