D1.A.3 Member Properties
The AISC 360 design codes can be used to design members that are specified from a range of specific section profiles.
Profiles are added in the MEMBER PROPERTY definition and can be selected from the following shapes:
- Standard hot-rolled steel profiles
Standard and legacy database
- Wide flange - with or without additional top or bottom cover plates. Note: If the profile is welded rather than rolled (for example, the B shape profiles from the US database), then this should be specified using the STP 2 parameter (refer to D1.A.6 Design Parameters for details).
- Channel - single only
- Angle - single and double
- Tee - including tee cut from wide flange section
- Pipe - including HSS round
- Tube - including HSS rectangle
- Wide flange - with or without additional top or bottom cover plates.
- User table profiles
- Wide flange
- Angle
- Channel
- Double angle
- Tee
- Pipe
- Tube
- I Section - typically used as web-tapered sections
- Prismatic
- Tapered I
Material Properties
If the assigned material definition includes values for yield and ultimate strength, those values will be used as the default material strengths for AISC 360-16 design. Refer to Note 10 in D1.A.6 Design Parameters for details.