Beam properties

To assign the section and material properties to the beams choose:

Data->Conditions->General Properties

As the sections of the beams are rectangular for this example, choose condition over lines: Rectangular section .

First, to assign the properties to the horizontal beams, the values are:

Note: Remember that for an isotropic material:

In this case υ=0.3

Once the values are filled in, the condition must be assigned to all the horizontal beams.

The same must be made with the vertical beams. In this case the Y’ axe points to the direction of the X axe for local axes system Default .

The conditions that have been assigned and their local axes can be viewed with the Draw button in the conditions window .