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thread172-361800 The section you described does meet inequation F3-2

Well, I know that RISA does the same than STAAD for Item #5 above I have also heard good things about SAP2000 too

JAE, which program(s) you use?

I just re-started using STAAD last week. I did not use it for many many years. Research Engineers used to be the owner, now it is a Bentley product as you'all know. I did not feel comfortable on just using STAAD without testing it again. In doing that, I came across some findings that I would...

does anyone has the AASHTO 4th edition 2007 available that I can borrow to take the SE1 Exam?

To be conservative they could have added a safety factor and that's it and not show a wrong procedure.

I did already and they (AISC people) basically responded that they do understand that maximum bending and shears do not occur at the same location but they combined together them just because it is conservative. In my opinion I don't think that is a good answer.

Design Example H5-c in AISC 13th edition CD-room intends to illustrtae the correct interpretation of section H3 (page 16.1-74) of the code. In this example they calculate the Unity Check using equation H3-6 considering like if the maximum moment and shears occur exactly at the same location but...