Hi,

EN 1993-1-8 weld requirements requires no evaluation/check if there's full penetration weld between beam-beam joint.

however, in real life full penetration welds are quite expensive and we could go with partial penetration+Fillet welds, but to evaluate these requires beam end forces and Formulae based on EN 1993-1-8 and is quite time consuming.

if we could implement it in the software itself, just by providing some inputs such as flange/brace weld sizes and then get the output in the form of weld utilizations, that would be really great.

I know other similar beam softwares in collaboration with ANSYS are already implementing such calculations.

Does SACS have plan to implement them anytime soon?