When trying to reinforce a member using Structure Wizard we end up getting worse results after the fact. We did a comparison of a W24X55 from the Section Database and a W24X55NR, NR stands for not reinforced, from the Structure Wizard and loaded them the same with the same properties and they fail at different ratios even though they are the same shape. We would like to know what is going on here besides the fact that the Physical Properties Ay and Az are not populated. Attached is a side by side comparison of the beams, a Word document with some screen grabs and the Section Wizard files.
Thanks,
Russ