Design of Steel Columns:  

• Check the compactness of an angle shape under uniform compression.

• Check the compactness of a rectangular HSS or box shape under uniform compression.

• Check the compactness of a roung HSS or pipe under uniform compression.

• Check the compactness of an I-shape or channel section under uniform compression.

• Calculate the compressive strength of a non-slender rolled shape other than angles.

• Calculate the torsional and flexural-torsional buckling compressive strength of a non-slender symmetric rolled shape. This calculation may control the design of wide flange and similarly shaped columns when the torsional unbraced length is larger than the lateral unbraced length.

• Calculate the compressive strength of a non-slender steel angle.

• Calculate the compressive strength of a slender unstiffened rolled shapes other than angles.

• Calculate the compressive strength of a slender unstiffened single angle.

• Check steel member subjected to a compression load and flexural loading around the weak and/or strong axis.

• Given an axial load design a W section steel column using ASD.

• Given a factored axial load, design a W section steel column using LRFD.