CSiSteel vs Table8welds

CSiSteel features a comprehensive library of steel sections and their structural properties. From site engineers and suppliers looking for alternative sections based on regional availability, or construction constraints, and structural engineers looking for optimum sections in structural designs to teachers and students for steel design projects. Application/Usage: • Search and select optimum steel sections for steel design procedures, including ASD and LRFD methods • View equivalent sections based on user selection criteria Target Users: • Site engineers, contractors, and steel suppliers looking for alternative sections based on regional availability, or construction constraints • Structural and civil engineers looking for optimum sections for structural modelling and analysis • Teachers and students searching for steel sections in steel design projects Key Features: • Comprehensive library of steel sections including AISC, CISC, and Arcelormittal • Get equivalent sections for user selected sections • Search and sort for sections based on many parameters, including section properties Key Input: • Steel library • Section type, dimensions, or properties • Steel section Key Output: • Steel section • Section dimensions • Section properties • Equivalent steel sections

Useful for the preliminary sizing of fillet welds, Table8welds is an engineering calculator app that computes the initial fillet weld size for typical welding patterns used in steel construction. After providing the input parameters (design method, weld strength, weld pattern, required load and weld dimensions), coefficients C and C1 are determined based on industry standard reference tables. The initial fillet weld size, Dmin, is then calculated and expressed as the minimum number of sixteenths of an inch required. The calculations performed by the Table8welds app are based on the Instantaneous Center of Rotation Method. For practicality, the weld dimension, L, is limited to a minimum value 1 inch and a maximum value of 100 inches. The required force, Pu or Pa, is limited to a range between 1 and +9,999 kips. The tables used by the app to determine the Coefficient, C, for Eccentrically Loaded Weld Groups are available for reference and manual verification by the user.