Webinar |The Direct Strength Method in Cold-Formed Steel Design

CFS is unique in its design due to complex buckling considerations which must be accounted for. Traditionally, the Effective Width Method (EWM) was used to account for buckling considerations, but now the newer and more accurate Direct Strength Method (DSM) is available and encouraged by AS/NZS 4600.
Join ClearCalcs’ Head of Engineering R&D, Brooks Smith, as we teach you all about the Direct Strength Method and take you through how to practically make use of it in real-world designs.
Find out more about Cold-Formed Steel Calculator to Australian Standards: clearcalcs.com...

[@onlinetuna]

Excellent explanation of the modes, just what I was after.

[@JimWilson77]

The Aluminum Design Manual also permits design of aluminum sections per the Finite Strip Method. I have never attempted it but would love to as it could be great for complex shapes like window mullions. The first big obstacle was the effort it would take to create cross sections for some of the more complex shapes.
Do you have any references or examples of how that might be implemented? Is it possible that ClearCalcs might add this a design module? I don't believe there is anything like it on the market.

[@ClearCalcs]

Hi Jim, thanks for your comments here! We don't really have any specific materials we can share at the moment but you can use our "Custom Thin-Walled Cross-Section" to do the finite strip analysis. However, as we don't currently have aluminium design module yet, you'll still have to do the actual design outside of ClearCalcs.
Happy to connect you to one of our engineers if you wish to discuss more about this. Please reach out to [e-mail] and mentioned your question here!