Converting from Eurocode to American standard, TIA-222

[Anonymous]

Hello community!

I have built up a working RSA model according to Eurocode in metric units. I now want to translate this into the American standard and verify it according to TIA-222 rev G, altough keeping it in metric.

My model consists of a steel tower with a wind load aquired from  a wind simulation from RSA on a surrounding cladding. I've managed under both preferences and job preferences to change to US and also changed back all the units from im

I have also tried to change my model to the american design codes, but I had troubles figuring out which of the design codes is the correct one for me. See attached code list. I can't find TIA in the list, but a quick google gave me a relation between TIA and EIA, can anyone confirm that this is the correct design code?

I then continued to look at the combination of loads, I was hoping to use some kind of automatic combination, but once again I'm met by several options, see attached load combination list. If you could help me determine which of these (or perhaps an other) is best suited for me.

At the moment, I'm only intrested in aquiring the forces/reactions, so i belive that if I can just get this working, the rest will follow rather smoothly, hopefully. 

Sorry for my english.

Regards, Thyman

[Artur.Kosakowski · Accepted solution]

Please mind that the version of EIA available in Robot is based on the following book:

The automatic code  generation of loads according to the rules for the US transmission towers is not available in Robot.

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[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply!

I wasn't able to look into this before the weekend, hence the late reply. I suppose that means that I'll have to create my load cases manually. 

Do you know whether or not RSA is able to make the member verification according to said standard? Which design code should I then use, is EIA sufficient?

Regards /thyman

[Artur.Kosakowski]

I'm sorry but I haven't got enough knowledge about the US requirements for the design of such structures to answer your question. What about checking the demanded code and its version with the company you make this project for? Perhaps somebody else on the forum is able to give you more guidance :-).

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[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello again!

Thank you for a quick answer. Yes, I simply need to dig into this code, which i was hoping to avoid as much as possible. I'll leave this thread as unsolved a little longer in case someone drops by.

Thank you.