Extended Flange Plate Settings

General settings

Minimum plate thickness: The minimum thickness of the extended flange plate.

Maximum plate thickness: The maximum thickness of the extended flange plate.

Minimum plate length: The minimum length of the extended flange plate measured parallel to the beam's work line. This width applies to both the NS and FS extended flange plates.

Minimum plate width: The minimum width of the extended flange plate measured perpendicular to the beam's work line. This length applies to both extended flange plates.

Plate clearance parallel to support: The distance the extended flange plates extend beyond the base/cap plate edges, measured parallel to the beam's work line.

Plate clearance perpendicular to support: The distance the extended flange plates extend beyond the base/cap plate edge, measured perpendicular to the beam’s work line.

Plate overhang tolerance: The distance the edge of the base/cap plate is allowed to extend beyond the beam flange edge before connection design attempts to design extended flange plates and stiffeners.

Beam stiffener

Clip beam stiffener: or .

If this box is checked ( ), connection design is permitted to create beam stiffener plates that taper to fit to the extended flange plates. These flange plates extend the effective flange width of the beam.

If the box is not checked ( ), rectangular, non-tapered beam stiffeners will be designed.

Minimum non-cope length: The minimum distance from the outside corner of the stiffener plate that is nearest to the extended flange plate to the corner where the stiffener plate begins to taper.

The position of these form buttons on the screen tells you what settings they apply to. Click here for more information. You can Copy ( ) the settings on this screen , then Paste ( ) those settings to a different screen of the same type. Save ( ) saves a file to a global folder ( ) that is used by your current version of SDS2. Give the file a name that will help other users identify its purpose. Load ( ) replaces the settings on this screen with the settings that are stored in the file that you select. When editing multiple screens at the same time, Paste and Load replace mixed entries to a single field with a single entry. Copy and Save ignore fields with mixed entries, treating them as if they have no entry or do not exist.

OK (or the Enter key) closes this screen and applies the settings.

Cancel (or the Esc key) closes this screen without saving any changes.

Reset undoes all changes made to this screen since you first opened it. The screen remains open.