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AISC Design Examples — Solved by the Site Engines

Every steel tool on this site was anchored to worked examples from the Companion to the AISC Steel Construction Manual, Volume 1: Design Examples (Version 16.0, AISC 2023; based on AISC 360-22) before it was published. This page shows those anchors side by side: the value printed in the example and the value the site engine computes, live, from the same inputs.

How to read this page. The examples are not reproduced; only their inputs, the governing quantity and the printed result are cited. Deviations within about 1 % come from rounding in the examples (for instance E.14A rounds Lc/r to 127). Where a note says "caught", the anchor exposed a real error in an earlier version of the engine — that is exactly why the anchors exist.

Example	Member and inputs	Quantity	Example	Site	Δ	Clause / note

Tools behind these anchors

Single angles · Built-up I-shaped girders · Composite beams · Rectangular and square HSS · Steel members (AISC 360)

Source: Companion to the AISC Steel Construction Manual, Volume 1: Design Examples, Version 16.0 (American Institute of Steel Construction, 2023), a free AISC publication; F.1-2B value as reproduced by Dlubal. Values on this page are generated by the site engines (tools-dev/build-aisc-examples.js → data/aisc-examples.json) and a permanent test (tests/v546-aisc-examples.test.js) fails if the engines and this page ever drift apart. This is a verification page; it is not a basis for project approval.