ALL SHAPES

Purpose: Used to indicate bracing member shapes in Girder System Projects. (Not applicable to Line Girder Projects.)

--> Given in bracing input

In Bracing Rating Input:

All member shapes for a given bracing group (see FOR GROUP i, j, ... ) are specified using the same shape for each member: WhhXwww (W shape), WThhXww (structural tee), LhhXllXtt (angle), 2LhhXllXtt (double angles), ChhXww (channel), or MChhXww (light channel). For example, ALL SHAPES L3.5x3.5x.375 FOR GROUP 2 indicates all members of bracing group 2 are L3.5x3.5x.375.

In Bracing Design Input:

All member shapes to be selected in the design generation of a given bracing group (see FOR GROUP i, j, ...) are selected from either W, WT, L, 2L, C, or MC. For example, ALL SHAPES L FOR GROUP 2 indicates all member shapes for bracing group 2 are to be selected from L shapes.