Member Stresses

Member stresses is of limited use as it only examines the “direct stresses”.

It finds the maximum

• Mx Major Axis Moment along the member
• My Minor Axis Moment along the member
• F   Axial Load along the member.

It ignores

• Vx Shear
• Vy Shear
• Tz Torsion

Then using the Area, Zx & Zy properties of each member it returns the maximum & minimum stresses in the member fmax & fmin. 

The fact that Mx, My & F may not occur at the same time is ignored.

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Filtering at the bottom is similar to the view & print Tabular output.

The Display Options panel allows you to select whether to display the Area, Zx & Zy or basic stresses fa, fx, fy as shown in the 2 tables above. 

Note: these stresses take no account of Axial & Lateral Torsional buckling.