RCC column design

Mr. Nihesh.

I am attaching the staad file as told you. I am using the staad pro version 20.07.03.16.

The out put file for column design for some columns is saying" **** ITERATIONS EXCEED 500.
WHILE CALCULATING COLUMN MOMENT CAPACITY.

I would also like to know whether any report /data is available listing the errors,warning and the reasons for their occurance.

regards

ramakumar

Dear Sirs,

    Sorry for digging up such an old topic. But I came across this thread on searching for this warning. I am confused by this response. Theoretically, I would assume that if the warning is an indicator of member having failed, the output should not include results (Steel reinforcement required). However, the output is including required reinforcement (and it is not necessarily near 4% - in some cases it is less than 3%). Please clarify.

Thanks in advance

Arunkumar Srinivasan

Dear Sirs,

    Sorry for digging up such an old topic. But I came across this thread on searching for this warning. I am confused by this response. Theoretically, I would assume that if the warning is an indicator of member having failed, the output should not include results (Steel reinforcement required). However, the output is including required reinforcement (and it is not necessarily near 4% - in some cases it is less than 3%). Please clarify.

Thanks in advance

Arunkumar Srinivasan

Dear Sirs,

    Request clarification for my query above... Further, I am clarifying that this is not in reply to Mr. Bijay's post just above mine, but with respect to Mr. Nihesh's post (just above Mr. Bijay's post)

Thanks again

Arunkumar Srinivasan

The program is automatically increasing % of Reinforcement and starting with a new round of iteration. After 500 iteration, it fails to calculate the capacity. This message indicates that column design in incomplete. The program is able to calculate the % of Ast required from the column. Then, it tries to distributes the reinforcement. After providing the reinforcement, the program is calculating capacity based on the provided reinforcement. It fails in this process.

Dear Sir,

      If the column design is incomplete, why is STAAD displaying the steel requirement along with the warning? Are you implying that the Column design is safe, but STAAD is unable to compute the IR?

Thanks in advance

Arunkumar

If you get this kind warnings, it indicates that the program is unable to report IR correctly.

Dear Sir,

     Based on your post, I am now understanding that this warning "The number of iterations exceeded 500" does not mean that member has failed. It means member has passed but capacity ratio parameter IR could not be calculated accurately for the same.

    Please confirm this is correct.

    Also, I notice your posts indicate you are part of Bentley's Select Support staff. Hence, this would be equivalent to official confirmation from Bentley on the same. Hope I am correct

   Sorry for any inconvenience but reason I am asking for this is that this warning is present in my STAAD output which I need to submit for cross-verification and an official explanation for this warning could not be found earlier to my satisfaction.

Yours sincerely

S Arunkumar