• RE: Pipe Rack + Vertical Vessel Slab design in Staad Pro

    You can model the mat in STAAD.Pro using a mesh of plates. The following wiki should answer your questions related to bearing, pressure, sliding, overturning https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/w/structural_analysis_and_design__wiki/29973…
  • RE: Meshing tool for a concrete slab.

    Hi Jorge Ochoa Leon, This can be performed by using Parametric mesh modeling - see more in STAAD.Pro Home > Modeling > Creating Model Objects > Geometry > Plates > Parametric Models (for Connect Edition), and for older versions, as per this thread:…
  • Meshing tool for a concrete slab.

    Dear community, How can I effectively create plate mesh that intercepts with the nodes (base columns), shown in the render, I’m trying to create a “random” mesh that get close to a plate node and the I just merge the node from the column with the…
  • RE: Truss Design Instability Issue At Joint

    I would think that your top and bottom chord members would be continuous members and would be subjected to bending. So you should not declare these or the vertical columns as TRUSS members. Instead you should declare the verticals and inclined braces…
  • RE: UNT and UNB AISC 2010

    Since the cross beams are already modeled in your case, the main beams are split into smaller segments and their laterally unbraced lengths would automatically default to the individual segment lengths. So you do NOT have to specify UNT/UNB in addition…
  • RE: Steel model compairason for several loading scenarios

    As of now, although you can have a set of loads each representing a certain loading condition and have these analyzed, comparing results is pretty much a manual process. However there are some exciting updates that are coming soon in this front. Through…