HEA/IPE Profile Units

[andyvwhitman]

The units row for the data in the HEA and IPE files say that the units of I and W values for every profile is in mm^4 and mm^3, but I believe it's actually in cm^4 and cm^3. This is potentially evidenced by later quietly multiplying I values by 10000 (to go from cm^4 to mm^4) and W values by 1000 (to go from cm^3 to mm^3) in the load function of materials/profile.py

[brookshsmith]

Thanks, @andyvwhitman ! This is actually a part of the code that I've never worked with, but I'll dig in and at least fix the label then here!

[brookshsmith]

↑ See closed related issue #364; let's just audit all of the units around the steel sections mechanism here.