Substructure Help

Inverted Tee Cap Parameters Screen

This screen displays when you select cap shape as Inverted Tee cap. An Inverted Tee cap has bottom flange and stem details. For frame definition, the cap elements are located at top of the ledge of the inverted Tee cap.

Clicking the Inverted Tee Cap Parameters Screen opens the following dialog:

To define a section:

Input the Start and End elevations of the ledge, and the skew angle.

Input the height of a stem.

Input the bottom flange thickness.

Input ledge width distance. Program assumes the symmetric inverted Tee cap.

For cracked section, provide reduced moment of inertia factor. Program uses this factor to reduce the gross moment of inertia in the frame analysis.

Note: Program calculates total cap height and bottom flange width based on the provided dimensions.