So I have completed my load analysis and made some progress on some better trussing. However now I'm looking to cut some weight out of my structure my minimizing members. I know my yielding strengths of my members and I can locate the members visually by scanning the stress results. I have come across a huge question that will illustrate my newness to this, when i'm looking at this below i figure i would be most concerned with not exceeding my maximum at any point on the pipe and i can't rely on this tabulated maximum value. Also is it possible to have staad output for me the data of these peak stress points... in ascending/decending order would be great. How would I do that? Anything to help me identify those beams that are over sized and can be reduced would be great. (btw there are a lot of these beams)
Also any hints or tips at this point would be great to keep me going.
Thanks
Seth
