{"id":8836,"date":"2023-04-19T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=8836"},"modified":"2023-04-19T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:22:01","slug":"should-i-enter-uls-or-sls-values","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/knowledge-base\/should-i-enter-uls-or-sls-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I enter ULS or SLS values?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What load values to enter in PowerConnect: the Ultimate Limit State or Serviceability Limit State values for the loads?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: ULS values<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>And here&rsquo;s why:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The loads to be entered in PowerConnect should be <strong>design values<\/strong>. That means that the value should include already a safety factor. There are no options in PowerConnect to enter load safety factors or to generate load combinations. Secondly, we are calculating the connection&rsquo;s strength and resistance. So the load combination should be adequate to evaluate the strength and resistance and strength combinations in Eurocode correspond with ULS &#8211; Ultimate Limit State. So there&rsquo;s your answer. You need to enter ULS values.<\/p>\n<p>Note that you might want to enter multiple ULS combinations. For example: ULS max\u00a0 and ULS min values. You can enter multiple combinations. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/knowledge-base\/how-to-add-loads-and-load-combinations\/\">Learn here how to enter extra load combinations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"moz-extension:\/\/ccccaaeb-013b-4b99-be98-cffa5aa77072\/js\/app.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"moz-extension:\/\/ccccaaeb-013b-4b99-be98-cffa5aa77072\/js\/app.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"ConnectiveDocSignExtentionInstalled\" data-extension-version=\"1.0.4\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What load values to enter in PowerConnect: the Ultimate Limit State or Serviceability Limit State values for the loads? Answer: ULS values And here&rsquo;s why: The loads to be entered in PowerConnect should be design values. That means that the value should include already a safety factor. There are no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[1114],"ht-kb-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/8836\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}