Stainless steel design

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I assume Robot does not cover stainless steel design?

Also stainles steel properties would have to be entered manually to material list? 

Thank you.

[Artur.Kosakowski]

Which design code and profiles do you mean exactly?

[Anonymous]

Hi Arthur,

Profiles do not matter so much, I mean more material properties (is it best to change them manually? fy, fy, E and G are slightly different to normal steel as far as I checked). Could not find material list of Austenitic and Ferritic stainless steels to EN 10088 (As refered in EN1993-1-4) in Robot.

Also design to EN 1993-1-4:2006. Again I did not do stainless steel before but I have found that buckling curves and deflection calcs should be different if I am not mistaken.

Thanks in advance.

[Artur.Kosakowski · Accepted solution]

Yes, there are differences e.g. in calculations of section class. We  are trying to introduce materials in correspondence with the implemented design codes therefore the ones you mentioned are currently not available. As you wrote they can be added (personally I would add them with new names rather than make changes for the already existing ones) to the list with manually entered properties.

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[Anonymous]

Thanks Arthur,

So design option for stainless steels is also being incorporated? as now section classification and few other things are different and there is no way to tell program which way to design/check stainless steel? Thanks

[Artur.Kosakowski]

No, the design of stainless steel profiles is currently not supported (and this is why the corresponding materials are also not visible on the list). I'm sorry for not being clear enough.

[poka]

When we can expect EN-1993-1-4 to be included in ROBOT?