Steel Designer supports checking and designing of your structure in accordance with a range of design codes. At present, Steel Designer allows you to use

§   AIJ (Architectural Institute of Japan 1979)

§   ASD (American Institute of Steel Construction Allowable Stress Design, 9th Ed 1989)

§   AS4100 (Australian Steel Design Code, Standards Australia, 1990)

§   LRFD (American Institute of Steel Construction Load and Resistance Factor Design, December 27th 1999)

§   NZS 3404 (New Zealand Steel Design Code, Standards New Zealand, 1997)

§   BS5950 (British Steel Design Code, British Standards Institution, 2000)

§   AS/NZS4600 (Australian/New Zealand Steel Design Code, Australian Standards Institution, 2005)

§   AISI (North American Specification for the Design of Cold-formed Steel Structural Members ", AISI Standards, 2001 Edition)

§   A user definable allowable stress code

Other design codes will be supported in future releases of Steel Designer.

Only design codes licensed by the user will be active in the Code menu. A detailed description of the design checks performed by Steel Designer for each of the design codes is given in the following Chapters.