ETABS Tutorial

mizes the design for weight rather than price. Click OK to

close the form.

4. Select the Design menu > Composite Beam Design > Se-
lect Design Combo command to open the Composite Beam
Design Load Combinations Selection form. This form can
be used to select which load combinations are used for de-
sign. We are just going to look.

5. ETABS has automatically created six load combinations,

based on the AISC code, which will be checked for design.

6. Click the Construction tab. You will see that two combos
are listed on the right that will be used for design for con-
struction considerations. All the combos listed on the left are
defined, but will not be used.

7. Click the Strength tab and note that two different combos
are used for strength considerations, and similarly for the
Deflection tab.

8. To see the definition of any combo, click the combo name,

then click the Show button. Click the OK button to close the
form.

9. Click Cancel to close the Design Load Combinations Se-

lection form.

10. Make sure that the active display window is showing a 3-D
view of the whole structure.

11. Select the Design menu > Composite Beam Design > Start
Design/Check of Structure command. You will then see
each of the secondary beams highlighted, in sequence, as the
program performs the design check and optimization. For
each member, all available sections are checked, and the
section with the minimum weight that satisfies the design
code is selected.

12. When done, the display changes to show the following for
each member:

• The selected section.

5-8 Check Composite Beam Design