problems* from the _AISC 2010 Specification for Structural Buildings_ (commentary, page 16.1-276) have been reproduced in [ETABS|etabs:Home].

 The intention of AISC benchmark problems is to indicate whether or not an analysis software is capable of performing rigorous second order analyses which include P-Δ and P-δ effect.

ETABS captures both sources of [nonlinear geometric effect|kb:Geometric nonlinearity] with great accuracy, well within the 3% and 5% limitation of AISC. This capability is validated in the benchmark-problem results, shown below, where a column is divided into segments and subjected to compression.

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h1. See Also

* [P-Delta analysis parameters|etabs:P-delta analysis parameters]


h1. Attachments

* [Case 1 ETABS model |AISC stability benchmark problems^prob1.EDB] (zipped EBD file)
* [Case 2 ETABS model |AISC stability benchmark problems^prob2.EDB] (zipped EBD file)