Staad has a AISC Torsion check which would answer this. Does Risa have this?
If you substitute HSS for the W-Shapes, does the problem go away?
From: bill@polhemus.cc [mailto:bill@polhemus.cc]
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:57 PM
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Subject: RISA-3D Steel WF Torsion
I'm getting some anomalous results from a rather complicated steel frame run on RISA-3D. I'm doing RSA with this, and I have already noticed some peculiar results (at least for this "statics-based" puke).
When I look at the "Shear Check" plot on-screen, I'll see a lot of failures of wide-flange members (mostly beams), many with rather large "understrength factors" (if you will; I guess we used to say "overstress"), between 3.0 and 4.0.
But when I look at the specifics of a given member, I don't see any large shears at all. I'm inclined to think it might be a torsion problem showing up, but even the torsion doesn't seem that great (although it is present).
Any thoughts?