Tekla Structural Designer designs steel members and composite members to a range of international codes. This reference guide specifically describes the design methods applied when the steel design and composite design resistance codes are set as BS 5950-1 and BS 5950-3.1 respectively.

Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all clauses, figures and tables referred to are from BS 5950-1:2000 (Ref. 2); apart from the Composite Beam section, within which references are to BS 5950-3.1:2010 (Ref. 1) unless stated.

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