Cross section | CroSec | Cross section | CrossSection |
Family name of cross section | Family | Family name of cross section: defines a group of cross sections for cross section optimization. | Text |
Type name of cross section | Name | The Type name serves to identify a cross section uniquely upon selection from a cross section table. | Text |
Elem identifiers | Elem-Ids | Identifiers of elements to attach cross section to. | Text |
Color | Color | Color of the cross section. | Colour |
Material | Mat | Basic material attached to the cross section. | Material |
Local eccentricity [cm] | Ecce-loc | Vector of eccentricity in [cm] with respect to beam axis in local beam coordinates. | Vector |
Heights [cm] | Heights | Heights [cm] of the cross-section. Shell cross sections can have more than one height. | Number |
Position of center of gravity | zs | Distance of center of gravity of the cross section from the upper cross section boundary [cm]. | Number |
Position of center of shear | zm | Distance of center of shear of the cross section from the upper cross section boundary [cm]. | Number |
maximum width [cm] | MaxWidth | Maximum width [cm] of the cross-section. | Number |
Area [cm2] | A | Cross section area [cm2]. | Number |
AreaY [cm2] | Ay | Equivalent shear area [cm2] for shear in local Y-direction | Number |
AreaZ [cm2] | Az | Equivalent shear area [cm2] for shear in local Z-direction. | Number |
Iyy [cm4] | Iyy | Moment of inertia [cm4] about the local Y-Axis. | Number |
Izz [cm4] | Izz | Moment of inertia [cm4] about the local Z-Axis. | Number |
Ipp [cm4] | Ipp | Primary torsional moment of inertia [cm4] about the local X-Axis. | Number |
Cw [cm6] | Cw | Warping torsional constant [cm6]. | Number |
Wely+ [cm3] | Wely+ | Resistance moment [cm3] about the local Y-Axis. A positive moment My causes a positive stress. | Number |
Wely- [cm3] | Wely- | Resistance moment [cm3] about the local Y-Axis. A positive moment My causes a negative stress. | Number |
Wply [cm3] | Wply | Plastic resistance moment [cm3] about the local Y-Axis. | Number |
Welz+ [cm3] | Welz+ | Resistance moment [cm3] about the local Z-Axis. A positive moment Mz causes a positive stress. | Number |
Welz- [cm3] | Welz- | Resistance moment [cm3] about the local Z-Axis. A positive moment Mz causes a positive stress. | Number |
Wplz [cm3] | Wplz | Plastic resistance moment [cm3] about the local Z-Axis. | Number |
Wt [cm3] | Wt | Minimum torsional resistance moment [cm3]. | Number |
alphaY | alphaY | Buckling coefficient about local Y-axis according to EC3. | Number |
alphaZ | alphaZ | Buckling coefficient about local Z-axis according to EC3. | Number |
alphaLT | alphaLT | Coefficient for lateral torsional buckling according to EC3. | Number |