LIMSTEEL

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Introduction
LIMSTEEL Standalone is a user-friendly program for the limit states design of steel members and
connectors according to AS 4100-1998, NZS 3404-1997, and of Duragal members according to AS/NZS
4600-1996. The program can also proportion plate web and box girders and their stiffeners.
The new Windows version of the long-established LIMSTEEL Standalone now allows the design of steel
structures to be carried out in a Windows environment, and to be combined with other Windows
programs such as word processors and drawing and graphics programs.
LIMSTEEL can both check existing steel members or design them by finding the lightest member that is
necessary. Member actions include moments, tension or compression, shear, bearing and combinations.
Members can be considered one at a time, or in groups by saving data to file, thus allowing future
revisions to be made with minimum effort.
LIMSTEEL can check or design connectors, including butt and fillet welds, bearing and friction-grip
bolts, plies and pins.
LIMSTEEL can proportion welded plate web and box section girders for deflection, moment, axial force
and shear, and their properties can be calculated automatically and saved in libraries for future use.
LIMSTEEL can proportion load-bearing, intermediate and longitudinal stiffeners, and end plates.
Libraries contain data for a full range of Australian sections, and libraries of welded plate web and box
section girders can be developed.
LIMSTEEL is
Cost saving in time and materials
Greatly reduced design times and more economical structures.
Easy to use
Active help facilitates the selection of the design data and the calculation of intermediate quantities.
Self-contained
Libraries of section, material, and design data remove the need for external design information.
Reliable and accurate
More than 8 years of error-free use. Eliminates user errors of manual data transfer, calculation, and logic.
Authoritative


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Developed at the University of Sydney under the direction of Professor NS Trahair, one of the principal
contributors to AS 4100, and author of design textbooks and design aids. Marketed through the
Australian Steel Institute, Australias leading technical information organization for steel construction.
Informative and educational
Pop-up help screens give advice on design inputs and code rules.
Self-reporting
Wide range of reporting options available on screen and for printing, including code governing clauses,
intermediate results, action/capacity ratios and design equations.
Compatible with Microsoft WORD
Reports and screen graphics can be saved into WORD documents and combined with other material to
produce wider-ranging reports.
LIMSTEEL LITE
LIMSTEEL LITE is a reduced student version of LIMSTEEL available free of charge. LIMSTEEL LITE
allows the user to check one AS 4100 member at a time. The other data input screens for NZS 3404 and
AS/NZS 4600 members, plate web girders and welded box sections, stiffeners and connectors have been
disabled, but remain visible to the user. LIMSTEEL LITE can only check hot-rolled I-sections and
rectangular and square hollow sections, and does not allow a report to be generated. LIMSTEEL LITE is
included in the LIMSTEEL setup package. The program file name is LSLITE.exe. No site key is required
to run this program.

System Requirements
LIMSTEEL Standalone has been developed to run under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.

LIMSTEEL Screens
LIMSTEEL consists of a number of screens which allow the entry of data, the calculation of intermediate
values, the display or reporting of results, the choice of one of a number of alternative values or
procedures, and the display of advice or information.
Below are a number of examples of these screens.



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Phone: 61 2 9351 3837
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Email: jpp@civil.usyd.edu.au