Release Notes for Descon Version 8.1.0.021

A flange plate's weld to an HSS column is now checked along the face the beam frames into. It had always used the HSS's narrower side.

Also in this version:

• For flange plates and directly welded flanges to an HSS column under AISC 360-16 and 360-22, local yielding due to uneven load distribution and punching take the effective width from the plate's full width, no wider than the column face and no more than the workable flat. The plate's weld to the column is checked on the same width
• When Descon sizes a flange plate's weld to an HSS column, the weld is large enough for its own weld check
• For HSS columns under AISC 360-10, ASTM A500 Grade C meets the Fy / Fu limit of applicability, as the specification notes

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