Returns information concerning section properties.
RSA_SECTION_DATA (Information type, Section name)
The RSA_SECTION_DATA formula syntax has the following arguments:
Information type
The following types of information are available:
- ANGLE1
additional angle which can be specified for some section (for example thin-walled section)
- ANGLE2
additional angle which can be specified for some section (for example thin-walled section)
- AX
cross-sectional area
- AY
reduced cross-sectional area when the influence of shear forces is considered (for calculations of angular deformations XY)
- AZ
reduced cross-sectional area when the influence of shear forces is considered (for calculations of angular deformations XZ)
- BF
section width: basic (maximal) horizontal dimension of a section
- BF2
width of section bf2 in a monosymmetric section
- D
section height: basic (maximal) vertical dimension of a section
- DIM1
dimension 1 (first numerical component of the section label)
- DIM2
dimension 2 (second numerical component of the section label)
- DIM3
dimension 3 (third numerical component of the section label)
- GAMMA
Gamma angle
- IOMEGA
warping constant I_omega
- IX
moment of inertia for torsion
- IY
moment of inertia about Y axis
- IZ
moment of inertia about Z axis
- P1_LENGTH
height of web p1 in parametric cross type section - l
- P1_THICKNESS
thickness of web p1 in parametric cross type section - t
- P2_LENGTH
height of web p2 in parametric cross type section - l
- P2_THICKNESS
thickness of web p2 in parametric cross type section - t
- P3_LENGTH
height of web p3 in parametric cross type section - l
- P3_THICKNESS
thickness of web p3 in parametric cross type section - t
- P4_LENGTH
height of web p4 in parametric cross type section - l
- P4_THICKNESS
thickness of web p4 in parametric cross type section - t
- RA
fillet radius (RA)
- RI
fillet radius (Ri)
- S
distance between elements in compound sections
- SURFACE
painting area of the bar unit length (section perimeter)
- TF
flange thickness
- TF2
thickness of flange tf2 in a monosymmetric section
- TW
web thickness
- VPY
extreme fiber distance from Z axis (on the negative side of Y axis)
- VPZ
extreme fiber distance from Y axis (on the negative side of Z axis)
- VY
extreme fiber distance from Z axis (on the positive side of Y axis)
- VZ
extreme fiber distance from Y axis (on the positive side of Z axis)
- WEIGHT
nominal weight per unit length of a bar
- WELY
value of elastic section modulus Wely = max(Iy/vz, Iy/vpz)
- WELZ
value of elastic section modulus Welz = max(Iz/vy, Iz,/vpy)
- WX
section modulus for calculations of torsion stresses
- WY
shear area Qy
- WZ
shear area Qz
- ZY
plastic section modulus in bending about Y axis Wply
- ZZ
plastic section modulus in bending about Z axis Wplz
Section name
The following input methods are available:
- Text - type a text (any character string) and enclose it in quotation marks
- Cell address - select or type a cell address (for example A1) which the data will be loaded from
EXAMPLE
Open the RSA_FORMULAS.rtd and RSA_FORMULAS.xlsx files to get a better understanding of the example below.
Formula:
RSA_SECTION_DATA("WEIGHT","W 8x15") - specifies a weight value per unit length of the cross-section of the W 8x15 section
Result (data):
218.9086122