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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">Apurba Tribedi&amp;#39;s Blog</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/atom</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/atom" /><generator uri="http://telligent.com" version="12.1.2.22116">Telligent Community (Build: 12.1.2.22116)</generator><updated>2010-03-16T12:29:00Z</updated><entry><title>STAAD Foundation Advanced version 7.2 released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-version-7-2-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-version-7-2-released</id><published>2015-08-29T06:45:00Z</published><updated>2015-08-29T06:45:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;A new version of STAAD Foundation Advanced (Version 7.2) is just released. This will be the last version of V8i generation product before we move to our next generation CONNECT edition. Like last release (version 7.1), it was released as a minor update. However, it contains four new foundation types and enhanced interoperability. A vast majority of users who use &amp;ldquo;Mat&amp;rdquo; foundation module will surely like ISM interoperability for mat foundation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;Detailed discussions on all new features are beyond the scope of this document. But we will briefly discuss a few items which are cornerstones of this release. For a complete list of new features and enhancements, please refer to &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;document included with the installation of the program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:150%;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Horizontal vessel foundation: supported on piles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:150%;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;Now STAAD Foundation Advanced offers capabilities to design horizontal vessel foundation supported by either soil or piles. To be consistent with the wizard based input, additional pages for pile arrangement page gets added to the wizard navigation tree. If the combined footing option is chosen &amp;ldquo;Pile Cap Geometry Page&amp;rdquo; gets added at the end of the navigation page.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;text-decoration:underline;"&gt; &lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/HExchangerPileCap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img width="735" height="417" style="width:673px;height:371px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/HExchangerPileCap.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;Similarly, if isolated option is chosen, two additional pages gets added at the end of the navigation tree to define pile arrangement for Channel end and Shell end.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;text-decoration:underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/HExchangerPileCapIso.jpg"&gt;&lt;img width="723" height="411" style="width:678px;height:412px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/HExchangerPileCapIso.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;Program can generate rectangular pile arrangement based on column and row spacing through simplified input wizard and then parametrically creates pile cap geometry with other inputs like edge distance and pile-in-pile cap. It is important to note, for combined pile cap, pier forces are resolved at pile cap centroid and individual pile reactions are calculated for all piles supporting the cap. As a result, calculated pile reactions are further used for design force calculations. For individual / isolated pile cap, respective pier load is directly passed on to the centroid of pile cap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/HExchangerRendered.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/400x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/HExchangerRendered.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h1 style="margin:24pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ribbed Beam Foundation for Indian Code&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;Based on popular demand, STAAD Foundation Advanced v7.2 now offers specialized foundation type which is popular in South East Asian market known as Ribbed Beam Foundation. It is a combined footing with grade beam spanning from edge to edge of the foundation. The configuration can be best described as an inverted T foundation. At the moment, the program supports Indian code only as it is a popular regional practice in India. As expected, in addition to common required design parameters for a combined footing, beam design related parameters are also required as shown below. It also includes an option to apply additional surcharge load on the beam. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;The design philosophy of a ribbed beam foundation is little different than of a traditional combined foundation. So, it is important to discuss the basic design steps for a better understanding. As mentioned above, the configuration is similar to an inverted T-beam. The flange part of the T is the footing slab which is resized for geotechnical design or in other words to meet bearing capacity requirements and pass stability checks which is similar to combined footing design.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;However the strength design is a bit different. It is assumed that the foundation slab (or flange portion of the T) won&amp;rsquo;t be designed for major axis moment rather entire bending resistance will be provided by the grade beam. So, the beam will be designed as a rectangular beam with longitudinal reinforcement and share stirrups. The cantilever portions of the slab on both sides of the beam is designed for transverse reinforcement and minimum reinforcement is provided for longitudinal direction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Ribbed-Beam.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/600x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Ribbed-Beam.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/DrawingRibbed.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:24pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pile Cap for Australian Code&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;The program supports Australian code for a few years now but pile cap design was missing from the list supported foundation types for Australian code. The new version of the program now can design pile caps for Australian code. It is based on AS 3600 2001 with amendments 1 and 2. Like pile cap design for other supported codes, pile arrangement can be created from a predefined set of configurations or can be generated through parametric rectangular or circular arrangement. Pier force is applied at the center of the cap and pile reaction is calculated which is eventually used to calculate design forces. Calculation sheet displays all detailed design steps with relevant code clause numbers and equations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/ASPileCap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/600x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/ASPileCap.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h1 style="margin:24pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ISM Implementation for Mat Geometry&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;Now STAAD Foundation Advanced supports ISM interoperability for mat foundation geometry. It can either create a new ISM repository or update an ISM repository with all geometric entities including mat boundary, holes, control regions, pedestals and grade beams.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/ISM.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/600x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/ISM.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;In conclusion, new version of STAAD Foundation Advanced is not just about bug fixes rather it includes many new features and enhancements. All users are recommended to upgrade their STAAD Foundation Advanced software to the currect version (version 7.2).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=271059&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="STAAD Foundation Tutorials" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bTutorials" /><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="STAAD Foundation Advanced" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bAdvanced" /><category term="Tutorial" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Tutorial" /><category term="How STAAD Foundation works" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/How%2bSTAAD%2bFoundation%2bworks" /><category term="mat foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/mat%2bfoundation" /><category term="machine foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/machine%2bfoundation" /><category term="structural software" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/structural%2bsoftware" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/foundation" /><category term="Ribbed Beam" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Ribbed%2bBeam" /><category term="Pedestal Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pedestal%2bDesign" /><category term="Pile Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pile%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /><category term="drilled pier" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/drilled%2bpier" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD Foundation Advanced version 7.1 released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-version-7-1-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-version-7-1-released</id><published>2014-12-17T21:58:00Z</published><updated>2014-12-17T21:58:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;A new version of STAAD Foundation Advanced (version 7.1) was just released. Although it was released as a minor update, it contains several important enhancements. Addition of these new features is a strong sign that this product is maturing very fast and becoming a de-facto standard for structural foundation analysis and design. The current update touched and enhanced core design features as well as reporting and drawing capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Here is a list of core design feature enhancements:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Sliding and Overturning Factors&amp;rdquo; table&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mat foundation enhancements&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Grade beam design&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Option to edit concrete property&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Pile head condition for mat on piles&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2 style="margin:4pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Sliding and Overturning Factors&amp;rdquo; table&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;One of the assumptions made by STAAD Foundation Advanced (SFA) was to use a common set of sliding and overturning factors for all load combinations. But often engineers need to use different sliding/overturning factors for different load combinations. So, a common request was to add the ability to specify separate sliding and overturning factors for each load combination.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt1.png"&gt;&lt;img width="175" style="width:173px;height:156px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/1880x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt2.png"&gt;&lt;img width="274" style="width:272px;height:155px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/1880x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt2.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;SFA&amp;rsquo;s implementation of new sliding and overturning factor table is a smart approach to address this limitation. This table is not really a table of safety factors for each load combination rather they are the multipliers to the safety factors specified in design parameter section of each job. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="height:auto;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/1880x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt3.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="height:auto;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/1880x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/sldovt4.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;For Example, as described in the image above, if a user specify a multiplier 1.33 for Load Case 1103, the effective sliding factor used for foundation analysis will be 1.5 x 1.33 = 1.995. This multiplier table (as opposed to effective safety factor table) makes sure the program is backward compatible. No change in design parameter input ensures any old files can be opened without a problem and the default multipliers for all load cases set to 1.0. This approach also ensures that engineers don&amp;#39;t need to input load case dependent safety factors for each foundation job, rather change it in one table and all jobs (including different foundation types) can take advantage of that change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="margin:4pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;Grade Beam Design for Mat Foundation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Mat foundation often includes grade beams. These beams are monolithically cast with the slab. Mat foundation is a FEA based flexible foundation, so during analysis physical beams are broken into shorter analytical beams to ensure proper beam-slab connectivity. After analysis, analytical beam forces are automatically merged to create design forces. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Version 7.1, now goes a step further to design those grade beams. Engineers no longer need to export design forces and design those beams manually (or using a different tool). As expected, a new leaf is now added to &amp;ldquo;Mat analysis/design options&amp;rdquo; tree. The new option is called &amp;ldquo;Beam Designer&amp;rdquo;, to specify design parameters related to grade beams. Also, it is important to note, old &amp;ldquo;design parameter&amp;rdquo; leaf is now replaced with &amp;ldquo;Slab Designer&amp;rdquo; leaf, which separates beam design from slab design and obviously makes the work flow clear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/beamdesign1.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/beamdesign1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Beam design options include clear covers at top, bottom and side. Stirrup legs can be specified by type of stirrup option. As always, calculation sheet outputs detailed step by step calculations with equations and sketches. However, the current version (7.1) supports only US (ACI 318) code, grade beams cannot be designed for other codes including British and Indian.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/beamdesign2.png"&gt;&lt;img width="265" height="469" style="width:227px;height:411px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/beamdesign2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;Pile head condition (Fixed / Free Head) for mat on piles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;A nice addition to extend &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;mat on piles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt; feature is the option to specify pile head condition. An option is added to choose either fixed or free head condition. It is similar to a spring support definition. So, pile spring definition table is now extended to include spring constants for all six degree of freedoms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;By default pile head is assumed to be pinned with no option to define rotational spring values. Choosing fixed head option, input columns for rotational springs get enabled.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/pilespring1.png"&gt;&lt;img width="476" height="377" style="width:435px;height:374px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/pilespring1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calverdanaibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/pilespring2.png"&gt;&lt;img width="398" height="129" style="width:391px;height:128px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/pilespring2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="margin:4pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;Option to edit concrete properties &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Mat foundation analysis requires concrete properties such as elasticity, Poisson ratio, density etc. Program assumed default concrete properties for analysis with no option to edit or change. Current version offers flexibility to change concrete properties through INI file and default properties dialog box. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/concreteprop1.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/concreteprop1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/concreteprop2.png"&gt;&lt;img width="479" height="276" style="width:394px;height:275px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/concreteprop2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="margin:16pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Reporting and drawing enhancements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Version 7.1 got major reporting and drawing enhancements. Here is a list of major enhancements:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Table of contents (TOC) for calculation sheet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Dynamic sketches for combined footing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Pedestal design interaction diagram&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Advanced options for detailed drawing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;Table of Content for Calculation Sheet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;One of the most popular feature of SFA is its calculation sheet. It is a detailed and step by step reporting. To facilitate browsing, a table of content (TOC) is now added to help user jump to the section they need to review. This feature will be particularly very useful when a job consists of multiple footings. Instead of scrolling through too many sections, user can jump to a particular section to review design calculations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/TOC1.png"&gt;&lt;img width="698" height="552" style="width:462px;height:480px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/TOC1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Dynamic table of content is also responsive to screen size (resolution). Table of content can adjust its size depending on available screen width. User can hover over the button to get the description of a section.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#2e74b5;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#2e74b5;font-family:verdana Light;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/TOC2.png"&gt;&lt;img width="102" height="372" style="width:101px;height:260px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/TOC2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="margin:4pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;Dynamic Sketches for Combined footing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;The most popular feature of SFA even got better when &amp;ldquo;dynamic sketch&amp;rdquo; was introduced in last major release (Version 7.0). Now, all step by step calculations are complemented by to-the-scale drawing to aid engineers reviewing calculations. The program took a cue from the old saying &amp;ldquo;drawing is the language of engineers&amp;rdquo;, to show graphical representations of numbers (calculations). For example, instead of just saying shear plane at a distance of 10 inch form the face of the column, programs draws the shear plane.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;This is possibly the most comprehensive foundation design output available today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Version 7.1, extends that feature to include dynamic sketches for combined footing design. It is implemented for British, Canadian, Australian and Indian Code. Following dynamic sketches are included:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;To the scale plan and elevation view&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Soil bearing contour&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Shear diagram&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Shear locations&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Moment diagram&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/svg1.png"&gt;&lt;img width="612" height="448" style="width:534px;height:351px;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;display:block;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/svg1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/svg2.png"&gt;&lt;img width="535" height="307" style="width:452px;height:240px;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/svg2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;Note: For dynamic drawing support in SFA, Internet Explorer version 9 or higher is required&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="margin:4pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;Interaction Diagram for pedestal design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;The program designs pedestal as a column for axial force and biaxial bending. Many users from different parts of the world requested for column interaction diagram as an output of pedestal design. So, version 7.1, extended an already comprehensive pedestal design output by adding pedestal interaction diagram. However, at the moment it is implemented for US (ACI 318) code only.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/pedestal.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;display:block;" alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/pedestal.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="margin:4pt 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#404040;font-size:x-large;"&gt;Advanced Detail Drawing Options&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;More and more engineers are now using program generated detail drawing. Naturally engineers need more control to format their drawing. To meet their requirement, a set of options were introduced offering better control over drawing generation. It includes: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Separate scale options for different views for isolated and combined&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;Control over line type and line color&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-family:&amp;#39;verdana&amp;#39;,geneva;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;
&lt;p class="auto-style3"&gt;More options for different paper sizes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/detaildrawing.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/detaildrawing.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=270385&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="STAAD Foundation Tutorials" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bTutorials" /><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="STAAD Foundation Advanced" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bAdvanced" /><category term="How STAAD Foundation works" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/How%2bSTAAD%2bFoundation%2bworks" /><category term="mat foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/mat%2bfoundation" /><category term="machine foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/machine%2bfoundation" /><category term="structural software" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/structural%2bsoftware" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/foundation" /><category term="Pedestal Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pedestal%2bDesign" /><category term="Pile Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pile%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>Much awaited: STAAD Foundation Advanced 7.0 is released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/much-awaited-staad-foundation-advanced-7-0-is-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/much-awaited-staad-foundation-advanced-7-0-is-released</id><published>2014-05-20T20:03:00Z</published><updated>2014-05-20T20:03:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;A new version of STAAD Foundation Advanced (Version 7.0) has just been released. As a matter of fact, it was a much-awaited version for its content-rich, new features. Improvements include a new foundation module as well as adding advanced features to existing modules. The focus was to improve productivity and to enhance user experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The most important addition is the introduction of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;dynamic analysis of vibrating equipment foundation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;. The other equally important enhancement is the addition of real time graphics in the popular calculation sheet.&amp;nbsp;This version is packed with features and includes more than fifty major and minor enhancements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Detailed discussions on all new features are beyond the scope of this post, but we will briefly discuss a few items which are the cornerstones of this release. For a complete list of new features and enhancements, &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="/products/structural/structural_analysis___design/m/structural_analysis_and_design_gallery/269772.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; document can be downloaded from the link below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Features:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;Vibrating Machine Foundation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;A proper analysis of vibrating machine foundation can be challenging. Several important steps are involved which can be broadly categorized as follows:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol style="text-align:left;"&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Finite element modeling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Soil spring stiffness and damping calculation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Dynamic loading and analysis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="color:#000000;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;FEA output interpretation to comply with industry standards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;A good software program should offer tools to automate the significant components and integrate those to create an engineering workflow. The New version of STAAD Foundation Advanced (SFA) simplifies the design steps of a vibrating machine foundation to achieve this goal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Finite Element Modeling:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Many authors and practicing engineers recommended use of solid (brick) elements for modeling a block foundation. With very few basic inputs, the program generates block foundation with solid elements. Meshing parameters are internally controlled by the program to accommodate pedestal(s) and to ensure proper load distribution.&amp;nbsp;Depending on machine configurations, there are three types of block foundations to choose from. It can be single block, combined block or combined block with a gear box. The program supports both rotary and reciprocating machines for single block and reciprocating machine for combined block.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/0564.Machine_5F00_Block.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/0564.Machine_5F00_Block.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Soil spring stiffness and damping calculation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Soil spring stiffness and damping calculation for a machine foundation is considered as the most critical segment of the analysis process. It depends of several parameters and different methods. Fortunately, SFA 7.0 can automate the process with very few inputs.&amp;nbsp;There are three methods to choose from. The engineer can directly input soil spring values or choose either Veletsos or Richart Whitman method. Program can calculate complex soil spring values involving equivalent foundation Radius (R&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt;), footing coefficients (&amp;beta;&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt;), damping constants (c&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt;), damping ratios (D&lt;sub&gt;i&lt;/sub&gt;) etc. Engineers do have the option to include or exclude the effect of embedment (embedment impedance) and material damping.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/machine_5F00_Spring.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/machine_5F00_Spring.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dynamic loading and analysis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Proper input of dynamic loads is an essential component for a successful machine foundation analysis. The forcing function of a rotary machine can be described as:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Load_2D00_equation.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Load_2D00_equation.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Where, F&lt;sub&gt;0 &lt;/sub&gt;is known as machine unbalanced force and often supplied by machine manufacturer. In case it is not known, an approximate value can be chosen from a table for the machines meeting ISO 1940 or ANSI standards. When a manufacturer supplies mass unbalance (or eccentricity) the resulting amplitude can be calculated as below:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Machine_5F00_Loading.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Machine_5F00_Loading.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Ref. ACI 351.3R-04&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;STAAD.Pro&amp;rsquo;s analysis engine is used to perform dynamic analysis. It is a Time History analysis for harmonic forcing function. All necessary parameters including mass modeling, time step calculation and forcing function definitions are automatically done by the program. An option for out-of-phase loading can be used for combined block foundations. It will create harmonic forcing functions on the second pedestal with a 180 degree phase angle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Output and calculation sheet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;The final step is to interpret dynamic analysis results to ensure foundation safety and comply with industry standards. Two checks must be performed to ensure foundation safety. First check is resonance criteria and then check for severity and permissible displacement.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Check for resonance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Modal calculation is an integral part of dynamic analysis. Number of desired mode shapes can be user specified. By default 10 mode shapes are requested. Frequency associated to each mode is then compared with the machine operating frequency to ensure there is no resonance. Normally modal frequency should not be within &amp;plusmn;20% machine operating frequency. The program automatically checks resonance condition and display message in calculation sheet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Check for severity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Several charts are in use for vibration severity check. These charts are typically machine frequency versus displacement graphs. The program uses two such charts from ACI 351.3R-04 (figure 3.9 and figure 3.10) to report machine severity condition. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Permissible displacement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Finally a permissible displacement check is performed based on ACI 351.3R-04, figure 3.11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Machine_5F00_Chart.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Machine_5F00_Chart.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;Variable Bearing Capacity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Variable bearing capacity is an advanced feature for isolated and combined footing design. Bearing capacity is a function of foundation shape, size, depth and geotechnical conditions. So, a pre-calculated bearing capacity may not be the most accurate parameter for foundation design. The best option would be to pick allowable bearing capacity from a list of bearing capacities based on foundation shapes, sizes and depths. The program now has the option to input a bearing capacity table and while optimizing foundation sizes, it will automatically pick the right value.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/VBC.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/VBC.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;Eccentric Combined Footing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;Often engineers need to design a combined footing with column eccentricities. Generally, engineers can design it as a mat foundation, but when eccentricities are not large enough engineers prefer to design it as a regular combined foundation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;So far, STAAD Foundation Advanced didn&amp;rsquo;t have an option to include columns which are not collinear. Now the program includes a new input to define column eccentricities. Length of the footing is in the longitudinal direction and column offset (or eccentricity) needs to be defined in the transverse direction. A column can be offset by positive or negative value. It follows the right hand rule where X-axis is the parallel to the length of the footing and Z-axis is parallel to the width of the footing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;As discussed earlier, this module is meant for small eccentricities. For large eccentricity users are advised to perform a full FEA based mat foundation analysis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/ECC_2D00_Combined.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/ECC_2D00_Combined.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#365f91;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;Dynamic Sketches in Calculation Sheet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;One of the most popular features in SFA is its calculation sheet. It mimics a hand calculated design sheet with design steps, code clauses and even exact equations. It displays sketches to clarify axis system conventions, diagrams and nomenclatures. But until version 6.2, those were static images and didn&amp;rsquo;t represent the actual footing to the scale. So, a rectangular footing with a higher L/B ratio might not get a good visual representation if the sketch is meant for a square foundation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;This sketch is now greatly improved with the introduction of &amp;ldquo;dynamic sketches&amp;rdquo;. Now, all the sketches are drawn to the scale with actual dimensions and even a detailed drawing at the end. For a combined footing design, it draws Shear Force and Bending Moment diagram for critical load cases which helps engineers to compare results. It even includes soil pressure contour which was a frequent request.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Sketch_2D00_BM.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Sketch_2D00_BM.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Sketch_5F00_Plan.png"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/690x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-07-24-31/Sketch_5F00_Plan.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;In conclusion, new version of STAAD Foundation Advanced (version 7.0) is content rich, it is definitely&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;one step closer to replace manual or legacy workflows in design offices. Machine foundation design is an advanced module and will certianly benefit users. We are planning to put more advanced features for future release, such as Table Top machine foundation which we expect to make available soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=269907&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="Structures" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Structures" /><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="STAAD Foundation Advanced" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bAdvanced" /><category term="table top foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/table%2btop%2bfoundation" /><category term="block foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/block%2bfoundation" /><category term="mat foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/mat%2bfoundation" /><category term="machine foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/machine%2bfoundation" /><category term="structural software" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/structural%2bsoftware" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/foundation" /><category term="Pile Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pile%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>An update to STAAD Foundation Advanced SS2 (version 6.2) is just released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/an-update-to-staad-foundation-advanced-ss2-version-6-2-just-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/an-update-to-staad-foundation-advanced-ss2-version-6-2-just-released</id><published>2013-09-13T00:19:00Z</published><updated>2013-09-13T00:19:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;The update (patch) of STAAD Foundation Advanced V8i SELECT series 2 (Release 6.2) is now available on SELECT to download. It is recommended for all users of STAAD Foundation Advanced version 6.2 to install this update package. This will update your existing 6.2 installation to the latest version.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;To download the patch:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Go to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://select.bentley.com/FulfillmentCenter/en/Search/Product/"&gt;https://select.bentley.com/FulfillmentCenter/en/Search/Product/&lt;/a&gt; in your web browser.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Select STAAD Products from the Products list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Select &amp;ldquo;All&amp;rdquo; in the Download Category list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Click Search. The list of all updates is returned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/7674.SELECT-patch-download.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Select the appropriate patch (06.02.00.59) of STAAD Foundation Advanced V8i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Click Continue and download the update installer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/0121.SELECT-patch-SFA.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;font-size:small;"&gt;Similar to previous updates, there are several enhancements and bug fixes included in this package. Here are examples of a few major enhancements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Combined footing design moment calculation at column faces&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;This is an important and long pending item. Previous versions used to take maximum and minimum moment solely based on bending moment diagram and there was no check in place to ignore higher moment values underneath the column or pedestal. Now program automatically calculates moment at all column faces and ignores moment points underneath the columns. Previous approach sometimes could lead to more conservative design, so new version leads to a more realistic design.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/3618.Combined-footing.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Foundation design based on ACI 318 now supports 3 versions of the code&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;"&gt;This feature was previously already added in &amp;ldquo;general Mode&amp;rdquo; but was missing in &amp;ldquo;Plant Mode&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Toolkit Mode&amp;rdquo;. With this update package program will now support ACI 318-05, ACI 318-08 and ACI 318-11 for all modules of the program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;serif&amp;#39;;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;serif&amp;#39;;"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/6136.Plant-ACI-code-versions.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enhanced spreadsheet import/export capabilities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Spreadsheet import/export is a popular feature in STAAD Foundation. This update added a few more tables to the import/export capabilities. The spreadsheet feature now supports &amp;lsquo;Soil Bearing Capacity Factor&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Self weight factor&amp;rdquo; and new ACI 318 code version tables. Soil bearing capacity factor table is used to input load specific allowable bearing capacities. The best examples are load combinations involving temporary load cases such as wind and seismic. Many codes allow 33% increase of bearing capacity for wind and seismic load cases. An input of 1.33 against such load combinations in soil bearing capacity factor table will increase soil bearing capacity by 33%.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5670.Spreadsheet.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Automatic load combination generation based on ASCE 7-2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;font-size:small;"&gt;ASCE 7-2010 table is now added as another option for automatic load combination generation. Many users requested for this tableas it is now being used as the standard load combination table replacing ASCE 7-2007 version. However, for the convenience of the users both versions of the load combination tables are supported.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;letter-spacing:0.5pt;font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;font-size:8pt;"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5287.ASCE-7_2D00_2010.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Input For Pedestal Steel % Reinforcement For US Code From Global Settings:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;For the convenience of experienced users, required minimum and maximum % of steel for pedestals can now be directly specified. By default, the program will use code specified steel %. One might argue why a program would allow to modify code specified minimum/maximum steel. The answer points to the different design practices among&amp;nbsp;different organizations around the world. However, those user specified % will be printed on the calculation sheet for review purposes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/7737.Pedestal-Reinf.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;This is probably the last and only update to STAAD Foundation Advanced SS2 (version 6.2). The next version of the program (version 7.0) is scheduled to be released by the end of this year which will include several exciting new features.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=258786&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author></entry><entry><title>STAAD Foundation Advanced Tutorials: Series 2 – Isolated Footing Design</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-tutorials-series-2-isolated-footing-design" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-tutorials-series-2-isolated-footing-design</id><published>2013-03-08T04:21:00Z</published><updated>2013-03-08T04:21:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Design an Isolated (spread/pad) Footing with STAAD Foundation Advanced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;This is the second post to introduce and explain a series of tutorials created to demonstrate different features of STAAD Foundation Advanced. In a former blog post, the &lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/2012/12/26/staad-foundation-advanced-tutorials-series-1-the-basics.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;STAAD Foundation Advanced Tutorial: Series 1 &amp;ndash; The Basics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; taught users how to set up proposed foundations and about the importance of global data. The following is the precursor of the video related to isolated footing design.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Isolated footing is probably the most used foundation type in the program. It is also probably the simplest of most foundation types&amp;mdash;rectangular in shape and placed under one column or support point. Engineers often use traditional equations as shown below to calculate soil pressures at footing corners. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;display:block;" border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/4048.base-pressure-equation.png" width="193" height="43" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;But the above mentioned equation may not work well if the eccentricity falls beyond the &amp;ldquo;kern.&amp;rdquo; Due to biaxial moments, stress at all four corners can be different and if the moments are large enough, there could be uplift or a part of the slab may not be in contact with the soil as shown in the figure below. It can be tedious to capture all these scenarios by manual calculations and often assumptions and approximations are made. A program like STAAD Foundation Advanced uses innovative techniques to accurately calculate soil pressures at all four corners including foundation uplift.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;display:block;" border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5811.Isolated-Contour.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Please note, the above image is for illustration purposes only. Finite element analysis (FEA) is used here to analyze an isolated footing and base pressure contour shows how soil pressure is acting on slab. One corner is not in contact with the soil and a pink line shows a large portion of slab is in uplift. It also shows one corner is subjected to excessive pressure. The same support was designed as a rigid foundation for maximum allowable bearing capacity of 4 kip/ft&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; and the program automatically picked up a proper foundation dimension. The table shows the soil pressure at four corners and evidently it matches the base pressure contour shown above. Also note, pressure at corner 2 shows zero value as that corner is out of contact with the soil. Similarly, corner 4 shows maximum base pressure and is very close to allowable bearing capacity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Load Case&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pressure at&lt;br /&gt;corner 1 (q&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt;) &lt;br /&gt;(kip/ft2) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pressure at&lt;br /&gt;corner 2 (q&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;) &lt;br /&gt;(kip/ft2) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pressure at&lt;br /&gt;corner 3 (q&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;) &lt;br /&gt;(kip/ft2) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pressure at&lt;br /&gt;corner 4 (q&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;) &lt;br /&gt;(kip/ft2) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The other important benefit of STAAD Foundation Advanced (SFA) is to calculate the most optimized foundation dimensions by iterating through hundreds of load combinations as needed. Depending on project requirements one or more dimensions could be fixed. The software offers many other design utilities like input for cohesion to resist excessive uplift or the depth of water table to calculate the effect of buoyancy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;ldquo;Rigid Foundation Settings&amp;rdquo; options under &amp;ldquo;Global Settings&amp;rdquo; should be carefully reviewed before designing an isolated footing. Some of the most important options are:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Type of Bearing Capacity (Gross &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;capacity or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Net Capacity)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Concrete Check self weight settings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Reinforcement Placement Option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Gross and net bearing capacity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The difference between gross and net bearing capacity is the soil overburden pressure. It can be written:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gross Bearing Capacity = Net Bearing Capacity + Soil Overburden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;img style="float:left;" border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/4426.Net-Capacity.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Concrete check self weight settings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;Self weight and surcharge are normally not added to design load cases as the shear due to these loads are nullified by the resulting base pressure. But in some cases eccentricity might fall beyond the footing length and the solution may never converge. In that scenario, self weight is added to obtain a solution for shear check and moment design. STAAD Foundation Advanced provides three options to handle these situations. It is recommended to use &amp;ldquo;net Pressure&amp;rdquo; option which should handle most scenarios automatically.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/8473.Global-settings-Concrete.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Reinforcement placement option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;Moment lever arm to calculate reinforcement requirement is dependent on this option. The following figure is self explanatory. In previous versions of SFA used to assume Mz (moment about global Z axis) is the major axis moment and the bottom most layer of reinforcement will always be parallel to global X direction. Now the user has the option to place reinforcement based on the structural requirements. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5658.Reinfo.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Soil depth for top or bottom fixed option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;This option greatly influences the calculation of dead load for service design. It is part of the design parameters under &amp;ldquo;Soil &amp;amp; Cover&amp;rdquo; section. The user can either fix the depth of the base of the footing or top of the footing. These options are called &amp;ldquo;bottom fixed&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;top fixed&amp;rdquo; respectively (refer to the image below). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;" border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/8206.Soil-Depth.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;If &amp;ldquo;top fixed&amp;rdquo; option is chosen, program will increase footing depth downwards; whereas if &amp;ldquo;bottom fixed&amp;rdquo; option is chosen, program will increase footing depth upwards. &amp;ldquo;Bottom fixed&amp;rdquo; option is normally chosen when engineers/contractors want to keep soil excavation depth same for all foundations of a building or similar structure. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;If initial user-provided minimum footing depth increases during foundation sizing and &amp;ldquo;bottom fixed&amp;rdquo; option is used, the program will automatically change actual soil depth on top of the footing and pedestal height. As footing depth increases during concrete checks, the program will re-iterate through all service load cases and calculate actual bearing pressure for new soil and pedestal height. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;Isolated footing is the simplest form of foundations to design, but to take full advantage of a software program, it is important to go through the tutorials and understand various options and utilities. STAAD Foundation Advanced is the leading foundation design software program which automatically offers a detailed step-by-step calculation sheet along with code clauses, equations, and references. But different options influence those calculations, some options like cohesion may not be used in all cases, but in other special cases those could be very useful. So, to optimize your foundation design it is important to know the assumptions made and options offered by STAAD Foundation Advanced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;In addition, these videos explain more specific about Isolated Footing job:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;1)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZIS3HJLxLQ&amp;amp;list=PL5LpElzkNC9lAKMJsmOt5sy_229lqLGlB&amp;amp;index=6"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;STAAD Foundation Adv 07: Isolated footing jobs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;2)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHhrPZE_paY&amp;amp;list=PL5LpElzkNC9lAKMJsmOt5sy_229lqLGlB&amp;amp;index=4"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;STAAD Foundation Adv 05: Creating Multiple Jobs on a Single Foundation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=236975&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="STAAD Foundation Tutorials" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bTutorials" /><category term="STAAD Foundation Advanced" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bAdvanced" /><category term="Tutorial" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Tutorial" /><category term="How STAAD Foundation works" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/How%2bSTAAD%2bFoundation%2bworks" /><category term="structural software" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/structural%2bsoftware" /><category term="foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/foundation" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD Foundation Advanced Tutorials: Series 1 - The Basics</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-tutorials-series-1-the-basics" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-tutorials-series-1-the-basics</id><published>2012-12-27T01:41:00Z</published><updated>2012-12-27T01:41:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STAAD Foundation Advanced Tutorials&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Series 1: The Basics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Recently a series of video tutorials were created to demonstrate different features of SFA. We will go through each one of those tutorials in details. This following write-up is the precursor of the videos related to global setup. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;STAAD Foundation Advanced (SFA) is not like any regular spreadsheet type design utility program. It&amp;rsquo;s an integrated solution which helps user to design foundations for the entire project. It offers tools such as &amp;ldquo;General Arrangement&amp;rdquo; (GA) drawing to decide appropriate foundation types. It can iterate through hundreds of load combinations and design most efficient foundations. Output includes construction ready detailed drawing and detailed calculation sheet which produces step by step calculations with applicable equations, code clauses and intermediate values. The sketches are included to make sure sign conventions are defined and understood properly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;So, to take advantage of the rich features of SFA it is important to setup the foundation model at the beginning. Program is so designed that user should follow some initial steps to setup the project layout to take full advantage of the program and gain maximum efficiency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Data in SFA can broadly be categorized as global and local data. Data which are related to external source or data which don&amp;rsquo;t depend on the foundation type are categorized as global data. Global data are grouped in three main categories which are &amp;ldquo;Foundation Plan&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Loads and Factors&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Soil Properties&amp;rdquo;. All the groups are important but &amp;ldquo;Foundation Plan&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Loads and Factors&amp;rdquo; are essential for setting up the foundation analysis/design environment. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;On the other hand, local data are specific to foundation types. For example data needed to design a pile cap would be different than the data needed to design an isolated footing. Pile properties would be unique to pile cap design module and isolated footing module would require soil bearing capacity as the footing will be supported by grade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;In this tutorial we will be discussing how to setup and the importance of global data. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/6864.Global-Setup.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Step 1:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;The first step is to setup the proposed foundation positions. As SFA is a 3D modeling environment, foundation positions are defined in Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z) where Y axis is vertically up and axis system follows right hand rule (like in STAAD.Pro).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Foundations can be of various types such as multi column strip (or combined) footing or spread (or pad) footing or a generalized flexible mat foundation. Before design, it is often not known what type of foundation is most suitable, so instead of defining foundations user is asked to start by laying out column positions. For any building, column is supported at ground and needs a foundation. But in SFA column locations can be defined as any point where an external load is acting, it may or may not be a part of the building structure. These points are called &amp;ldquo;Column Positions&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;So, first layout the physical columns and other load application point coordinates. Program by default assumes columns are of rectangular shape and assigns column length and width. Engineers must review and set proper dimensions as these dimensions will be used for shear and moment checks. But for industrial structures or steel columns such as wide flange, pedestal is used to connect column to the footing. There is a separate page in the program to define pedestal shapes and dimensions. It is important to note if a column is connected to a pedestal, column dimension won&amp;rsquo;t be used for any design check. So, if there is a pedestal, user can ignore column dimension setup for that particular column. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;If a pedestal is associated to a column, program assumes all loads are acting at the top of the pedestal. During design process all the lateral forces will be transferred from the top of the pedestal to the bottom of the foundation by multiplying the lateral forces with the summation of pedestal height and footing thickness.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/3247.Global-Setup_2D00_-Step-1.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;The next step is setting up the loads. SFA performs serviceability checks like bearing capacity and stability checks such as sliding and overturning for allowable stress load combinations only and concrete design is performed for ultimate load combinations only. If a load combination is defined as &amp;ldquo;Primary&amp;rdquo; and used to design, it will be used for both service and ultimate design. But it is highly recommended that only load combinations be used for design. In many cases design for primary loads such as wind or seismic may not converge as there might not be enough dead load to resist the overturning moment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;The very first step of &amp;ldquo;Load and Factors&amp;rdquo; is to create &amp;ldquo;Primary&amp;rdquo; loads such as &amp;ldquo;Dead &amp;ldquo;, Live&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Wind&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Seismic&amp;rdquo; etc. Then create load combinations either by manual definition or by using load combination generation tool. So, it is obvious to select the proper load type while creating a primary load if load combination generation tool to be used.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/8228.Global-Setup_2D00_-Step-2.png" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:medium;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Data flows between global and local data through a layer called job setup. A job must be set to design any footing. Main navigator leafs will be rearranged based on the job type. &amp;ldquo;Job&amp;rdquo; properties include footing type (e.g. isolated, combined, pile cap, mat etc.), design code (e.g. ACI, BS etc.), default unit type (either English or SI) and the supports which will be assigned to that job. So, a job definition is essentially creating a group of footings which will have same types and same design parameters (like concrete grade, cover etc.) but may not have same dimensions. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Once the job is created a new set of commands will be created in main navigator. Each of those commands will need additional data which are called design parameters and the group with new commands is called local setup. Design function uses both global and local data to design each footing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;The most important purpose to separate data in global and local layers is to empower the user with the tools to experiment with different foundation types for the same footing and select the most suitable solution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5707.Global-Setup_2D00_-Step-3.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;Following videos explain how STAAD Foundation Advanced program work and are recommended to watch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3wrjvUCbvY&amp;amp;list=PL5LpElzkNC9lAKMJsmOt5sy_229lqLGlB&amp;amp;index=1" target="_blank"&gt;STAAD Foundation Adv 01: How it Works - Load Cases, Load Combinations&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DernfYYXDZs&amp;amp;list=PL5LpElzkNC9lAKMJsmOt5sy_229lqLGlB&amp;amp;index=2" target="_blank"&gt;STAAD Foundation Adv 02: Column Position &amp;amp; Dimension, Pedestal &amp;amp; Anchor Bolt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyBFc_sVxEw&amp;amp;list=PL5LpElzkNC9lAKMJsmOt5sy_229lqLGlB&amp;amp;index=5" target="_blank"&gt;STAAD Foundation Adv 06: Difference Between Service and Ultimate Loads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=230967&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="STAAD Foundation Tutorials" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bTutorials" /><category term="STAAD Foundation Advanced" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bAdvanced" /><category term="Tutorial" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Tutorial" /><category term="How STAAD Foundation works" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/How%2bSTAAD%2bFoundation%2bworks" /><category term="structural software" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/structural%2bsoftware" /><category term="foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/foundation" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD Foundation Advanced 6.2 just released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-6-2-just-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-6-2-just-released</id><published>2012-09-05T02:49:00Z</published><updated>2012-09-05T02:49:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;STAAD Foundation Advanced (Version 6.2) is just released. The release includes new options and enhancements of isolated and combined footings along with near complete ISM implementation. To honor many users requests, the&amp;nbsp; program now supports 3 editions of ACI 318 code: 2005, 2008, and 2011. Another important enhancement is combined and octagonal footing detailed drawing which features&amp;nbsp; auto scaled views, reinforcement with true thickness, sheet management, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Features:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Aspect Ratio for Isolated Footing:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Length/Width ratio of isolated footing now can be automatically calculated based on corresponding column or pedestal dimensions. Simply enter 0 (zero) for &amp;ldquo;Length/Width Ratio&amp;rdquo;, which will prompt program to auto calculate the footing plan dimension aspect ratio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/1121.AspectRatio.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Combined Footing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Sliding Check:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This version implements a much needed missing feature for combined footing. Sliding Check has now been implemented for all codes. Like isolated footing, you can now specify factor for sliding check as following.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/1805.Sliding.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Footing Optimization:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The optimization option takes into consideration loading and geometric eccentricities. So the increments will follow the load directions. Another additional intelligence is the consideration of yield line theory. Depending on the load eccentricity position the program will try to increment plan dimensions proportionately. This option is new but has been tested by Beta testers. This can save huge amount of material and engineering time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/7462.Optimize.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;ACI 318 &amp;ndash; 2005, 2008, 2011:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;To cater the needs of different projects the program now supports 3 versions of ACI 318 code. Now while creating a job you have an option of choosing design code version for the US code. It now supports ACI 318-05/08/11 versions. Calculation sheet will reflect appropriate changes based on the selected code version.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/4174.ACI-31811.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Bottom Reinforcement Placement Option:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;To design reinforcement of any concrete cross section, we need to calculate the effective depth. As footings have two layers (Mx and Mz) of reinforcements at the bottom, effective depth for each layer will be different. Old versions of the program assumed that reinforcement in X direction will be at the bottom but that assumption may not be correct in all cases, so there is an option given in &amp;ldquo;Global Settings&amp;rdquo; to choose the direction for bottommost reinforcement layer. This option makes design assumptions a bit more open and accurate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/1452.ReinfDir.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;ISM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This version of the program has near complete implementation of ISM. It supports all four functions of ISM which are&amp;hellip;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Create an ISM repository from STAAD Foundation Advanced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Update an existing ISM repository with foundation design results&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Create a new STAAD Foundation file by importing ISM repository&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Update an existing STAAD Foundation file by importing ISM repository&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;All foundation types other than Mat are implemented in version 6.2. As ISM could be a big topic to discuss, a separate article will be posted on ISM and STAAD Foundation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Mat GA Drawing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;GA drawing is a very important tool in STAAD Foundation program to check foundation overlaps and interferences. But it didn&amp;rsquo;t include Mat foundation until this version. Now, the program will draw mat boundary and that makes GA drawing a complete tool to show and check foundation plan for whole project in just one drawing sheet. All recall that all drawings are to the scale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/6170.GA.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Enhanced Detail Drawings:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;Combined Footing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The detail drawing for combined footing has been greatly improved. The enhanced drawing is now construction-ready:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/1070.CombDetail.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;emsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Octagonal Footing detailed drawing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/1072.Octagonal.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;For more details, please refer to the &amp;quot;&lt;a title="What&amp;#39;s New in version 6.2" href="http://communities.bentley.com/controlpanel/blogs/posteditor.aspx/ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5282.What_2700_s-New-in-STAAD-Foundation-Advanced-62.pdf"&gt;what&amp;#39;s new&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; document.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=220273&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="STAAD Foundation Advanced" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bAdvanced" /><category term="mat foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/mat%2bfoundation" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/foundation" /><category term="Pedestal Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pedestal%2bDesign" /><category term="Pile Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pile%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /><category term="drilled pier" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/drilled%2bpier" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD Foundation Advanced (version 6.1) released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-version-6-1-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-version-6-1-released</id><published>2012-04-26T10:43:00Z</published><updated>2012-04-26T10:43:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;A new version of STAAD Foundation Advanced has been recently released. This is V8i SELECT series 1 release and the program version is 6.1. This is the first update of STAAD Foundation Advanced.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This version addresses long standing issues like net bearing capacity and net pressure checks. A newly added feature &amp;mdash; anchor bolt library &amp;mdash; takes the program one step forward to being the complete foundation design workflow. It also gives the hint that in the near future, anchor bolt design will be incorporated in the program and will be integrated with foundation design to automatically pick up the most suitable anchor bolt from the chosen library. This version checks the minimum required pedestal size for a given anchor bolt layout.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because of these additional new pages, there are some changes in the main navigator layout. &amp;ldquo;Column Dimension&amp;rdquo; page is split into &amp;ldquo;Column Dimension&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Pedestal Dimension&amp;rdquo;. You can create your own anchor bolt layout library through &amp;ldquo;Anchor Bolt Library&amp;rdquo; page and a layout from that library can be assigned to a pedestal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/7288.Pict1.png" width="239" height="200" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other change in main navigator is the position of &amp;ldquo;Soil Bearing Capacity Factors&amp;rdquo;. This page has been moved from &amp;ldquo;Loads and Factors&amp;rdquo; group to a new group called &amp;ldquo;Soil Properties&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/4572.Pict2.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Important Enhancements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two most important enhancements are&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bearing capacity type (Gross or Net)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Net pressure for concrete check&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bearing capacity type&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &amp;ldquo;Global Settings&amp;rdquo; dialog now has an option to choose bearing capacity type. All previous versions assumed that bearing capacity as a design parameter is always gross bearing capacity (GBC). But many users asked for net bearing capacity (NBC) option. As we know, gross bearing is calculated as:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;G.B.C = NBC + Soil Overburden&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, to input gross soil bearing capacity user must know soil overburden pressure and add that to NBC to obtain GBC. For a project there may be footings at different depths or variable embedment depths, so for each footing GBC has to be calculated independently which should be avoided to automate foundation design.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This new option automates the process of GBC calculation by calculating soil overburden during design optimization process, hence the bearing capacity needs to be input once for all footings having the same NBC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/2577.Pict3.png" width="403" height="463" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Net pressure for concrete check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Net pressure check is more of a necessity than a convenience. Footing plan dimensions are optimized for service load cases only where selfweight is used as a component of service load. But for strength checks selfweight is not required.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In some cases there may be large moment and low axial load resulting in the load centroid acting beyond the footing plan dimensions. In that scenario, stress distribution at different footing corners might not converge and design won&amp;rsquo;t be possible. So, selfweight can be added to balance that eccentricity. But adding selfweight will yield higher bending moment (BM) and shear force (SF) which in turn will produce an overly conservative design. To solve this dilemma, &amp;lsquo;Net Pressure&amp;rsquo; option can be used which will use selfweight to converge a solution and then will deduct the effect of selfweight while calculating design BM and SF. This method is recommended.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/6011.Pict4.png" width="406" height="506" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other noteworthy enhancements are sliding check for octagonal footing and&amp;nbsp; addition of shear check for pedestal design which makes pedestal design complete.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5481.Pict5.png" width="434" height="479" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Drawing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This version of the program produces a very high quality isolated footing detail drawing. The drawing has 5 viewports and each viewport has its own scale.&amp;nbsp; The drawing looks professional and can be used for production drawing with little effort. A sample drawing is as shown below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/7181.Pict6.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more details, please refer to the &amp;ldquo;&lt;a title="What&amp;#39;s new in STAAD Foundation Advanced version 6.1" href="http://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/7357.What_2700_s-New-in-STAAD-Foundation-Advanced-61.pdf"&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; document.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=207064&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="STAAD Foundation Advanced" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation%2bAdvanced" /><category term="mat foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/mat%2bfoundation" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/foundation" /><category term="Pedestal Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pedestal%2bDesign" /><category term="Pile Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pile%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /><category term="drilled pier" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/drilled%2bpier" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD Foundation Advanced released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-has-been-recently-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-advanced-has-been-recently-released</id><published>2011-09-29T03:23:00Z</published><updated>2011-09-29T03:23:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;A new generation of Foundation analysis and design software, STAAD Foundation Advanced, has been recently released. It replaces the STAAD.foundation software with more design codes, more functionality to basic modules, and new advanced modules.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Licensing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is very important to note that this is not an automatic update from old STAAD.foundation software. The license for STAAD Foundation Advanced is different than the license used in STAAD.foundation. So, to run this program, existing users of STAAD.foundation need to contact their respective Bentley sales representative to get a new license.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This release adds the missing plant modules like annular ring tank foundation and laterally loaded drilled pier analysis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the most important aspect of this program is to create a foundation design system typical to EPC companies. The key component to the EPC-like environment is a spreadsheet connection. With the adoption of SpreadSheetML technology, all required input can be defined in Microsoft&amp;reg; Excel. Most input required by the program now can be imported from an Excel spreadsheet and export back to the spreadsheet for more editing. The same technology is again used to create a detailed output file where output tables for all steps and for all load cases can be exported to a spreadsheet. This could be a major help to the engineers who like to review the design results.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5228.DP-3D.png" /&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/8865.pycurves.png" /&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/1581.BM_5F00_DP.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following video demonstrates some of these new features:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-i6JzJWqio"&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major &lt;b&gt;new &lt;/b&gt;features of this version are&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Annular ring tank foundation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lateral analysis of drilled/driven pile&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Detailed output&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Plant mode for Indian codes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Eurocode for general mode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Octagonal footing in general mode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Strap footing (two isolated footing connected by a beam) in general mode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Spreadsheet interoperability&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/4265.Strap.png" /&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/4353.Tank.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Visual Enhancements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;STAAD Foundation Advanced has implemented the Ribbon Control interface, which is the new standard for windows based modern software. This interface follows Microsoft Office&amp;reg; as closely as possible and should be familiar with users of Microsoft Office 2007 and more recent.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/1462.Ribbon.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Other enhancements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to many new features, there are several enhancements on this new product. Two major enhancements are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enhanced detailed drawing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Calculation sheet customization&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The quality of automated detailed drawings is greatly enhanced by the introduction of paper space and model space. Different viewports of plan, elevation, and sectional drawings now have different scales. Layer tags are introduced for further processing in a CAD environment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/3718.Drawing.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Based on popular demand, now the calculation sheet can be customized. Depending of module types, calculation sheet customization option dialog box will be populated with options for the calculation sections. It is essentially a group of check boxes to turn on/off a particular report section.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more details, please refer to the &amp;ldquo;&lt;a title="What&amp;#39;s New in STAAD Foundation Advanced" href="http://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/8713.What_2700_s-New-in-STAAD-Foundation-Advanced.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s New&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; document.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=185319&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Software evolution- changing the way we build structures today</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/software-evolution-changing-the-way-we-build-structures-today" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/software-evolution-changing-the-way-we-build-structures-today</id><published>2011-07-28T03:48:00Z</published><updated>2011-07-28T03:48:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;The Indian Concrete Institute has recently published a paper by me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Institute produces an annual technical volume in conjunction with CEMCON, a conference and exhibition that provides a forum for civil engineers interested in advancing the knowledge and application of concrete technology. The article, titled &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Software Evolution-Changing the Way We Build Structures Today&amp;quot; &lt;/i&gt;was a welcome addition to the convention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year&amp;rsquo;s theme was, &amp;quot;Construction of High Rise Concrete Buildings&amp;quot;. You can read the entire paper by clicking the link below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a title="Software Evolution-Changing the Way We Build Structures Today" href="http://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5047.Software-evolution_2D00_-changing-the-way-we-build-structures-today.pdf"&gt;Software Evolution-Changing the Way We Build Structures Today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=179436&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="Structures" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Structures" /><category term="Software Evolution" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Software%2bEvolution" /><category term="structural software" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/structural%2bsoftware" /><category term="ETABS" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/ETABS" /><category term="RAM" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/RAM" /><category term="STAAD" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD" /><category term="SAP" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/SAP" /></entry><entry><title>An update on STAAD.foundation 5.3 just released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/an-update-on-staad-foundation-5-3-just-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/an-update-on-staad-foundation-5-3-just-released</id><published>2011-06-20T23:38:00Z</published><updated>2011-06-20T23:38:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;The second update (patch) of STAAD.foundation V8i SELECT series 4 (Release 5.3) is now available on SELECT to download.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is recommended for all users of STAAD.foundation version 5.3 to install this update package. This will update your existing 5.3 installation to the latest version, which varies depending on if you are using STAAD.foundation as a standalone application or if it is a combined installation with STAAD.Pro V8i. This is a cumulative patch which means any Standalone version of 5.3 will be updated to 05.03.00.28. &amp;nbsp;For the combined STAAD.Pro and STAAD.foundation version, there is a separate update package which will update the version to 05.03.00.29. If you have combined installation, look for 05.03.00.29 version on SELECT update server.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To download the patch:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://select.bentley.com/FulfillmentCenter/en/Search/Product/"&gt;https://select.bentley.com/FulfillmentCenter/en/Search/Product/&lt;/a&gt; in your web browser.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Select STAAD Products from the Products list.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Select &amp;quot;All&amp;quot; in the Download Category list.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Click Search.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The list of all updates is returned&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Select the appropriate patch for the version of STAAD.foundation V8i you currently have (Standalone or Combined with STAAD.Pro).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Click Continue and download the update installer.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are several bug fixes included in this package. Here are examples of a few major fixes or enhancements.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Horizontal Vessel or Heat Exchanger pier design&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Until now, for rectangular piers, the reinforcement arrangement for any pier design had four sided equal reinforcement distributions. This works fine for square pier sections or possibly for rectangles having length over width ratio close to 1.0.But for a horizontal vessel, one side of pier is often larger than the other side. So, it requires 2 sided reinforcement distribution. This arrangement first places 4 bars at four corners and then places the remaining bars equally at two larger sides. So, this distribution will provide bar count as a multiplier of two. The following images shows 4 sided and 2 sided distribution.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In some cases 4 sided arrangements may fail as because clear spacing available in shorter direction could be lower than the code requirements. But same number of rebar can be arranged using 2 sided distribution. &lt;img src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/4336.Rebar_2D00_distribution.png" border="0" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Excessive support reactions for mat on piles
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The program used to show reaction values even for mat supported by piles. &amp;quot;Reactions&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Reaction Summary&amp;quot; tabs in output pane represent soil support reactions, but those values are meaningless (or uninitialized, in the programmer&amp;#39;s terms) if the mat is not supported by soil, so in some cases showed very excessive reaction values. This update will remove those reaction tabs if the mat is supported by piles only. There are &amp;quot;Pile Reaction&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Pile Reaction Summary&amp;quot; tabs already available to review pile reactions. Please note, &amp;quot;Pile Reaction Summary&amp;quot; is a good place to quickly check if pile reactions are exceeding assumed pile capacities.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;License related issue while analyzing mat foundation
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In STAAD.foundation version 5.3, while analyzing mat foundation, in some cases, the program was trying to access an extra license. If that computer has a valid STAAD.Pro installed, the program would analyze without any problems. But for computers which don&amp;#39;t have STAAD.Pro installed, the program sometimes could not analyze mat foundation. That issue has been resolved in this update.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adding tutorial videos
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This is applicable to combined version only which is version number 05.03.00.29. To reduce installation size it was decided not to include video tutorials with the main installation. But those videos could be very useful learning tools, so this update package will add those tutorials to the program.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=175026&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author></entry><entry><title>STAAD.foundation (SS4) Version 5.3 is released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-ss4-version-5-3-is-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-ss4-version-5-3-is-released</id><published>2010-11-09T01:45:00Z</published><updated>2010-11-09T01:45:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;STAAD.foundation V8i SELECT series 4 (Release 5.3) is now available on SELECT to download. The Version 5.3 release is a part of STAAD integrated release series and it takes STAAD.Pro integration to a completely new level. STAAD.foundation is now installed with STAAD.Pro and can be opened directly from the STAAD.Pro environment. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new tab called &amp;quot;Foundation Design&amp;quot; is added among the other Mode tabs in STAAD.Pro. Clicking that tab will open a new page. This page is very similar to &amp;quot;STAAD.Pro import&amp;quot; dialog in STAAD.foundation, where you can select supports and load cases/combinations to export. By default program will export all supports.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/3542.Dialog.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Clicking on &amp;quot;Launch STAAD.foundation&amp;quot; button will open STAAD.foundation and foundation design related data will be exported automatically to STAAD.foundation. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other important aspects of this new integration are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;1) Smart change management&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;2) Smart load management&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;3) Unit compatibility&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Smart Change Management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The integration takes the advantage of XML technology. A XML interface acts as a link between STAAD.Pro and STAAD.foundation. The new version of STAAD.foundation has an underlying layer which synchronizes current XML data with already saved data in STAAD.foundation&amp;#39;s native AFS file format. Whenever STAAD.foundation is launched from STAAD.Pro, this is the first step the program takes to make sure all changes made (if any) &amp;nbsp;in STAAD.Pro are merged with AFS file format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With this integration the flow between these two products is now seamless. Change management is completely handled automatically and does not require any manual intervention. The added advantage is to have a formatted text (XML) file format which can be opened in any text editor to verify (although not necessary for normal usage) the correct data transformation from STAAD.Pro to STAAD.foundation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Smart Load Management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The new integration honors load cases or combinations created in STAAD.foundation. It has the ability to differentiate load cases created in STAAD.Pro and STAAD.foundation. Graphically, in &amp;quot;Load Page&amp;quot; it shows even different icons for users to easily differentiate load cases. There are many ways this new feature could be useful. One possible work flow could be as following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;1) Go to &amp;quot;Foundation Design&amp;quot; page&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;2) Select only primary load cases&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;3) Launch STAAD.foundation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;4) Create load combinations for allowable and ultimate types inside STAAD.foundation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;5) Design Foundations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;6) When STAAD.Pro model gets updated, select primary load cases only before launching STAAD.foundation, so no need to check job definitions in STAAD.foundation and no need to worry about load types (allowable or strength).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/8814.FlowDia.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unit Compatibility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Depending on the base unit setup in STAAD.Pro, while launching, STAAD.foundation will set its unit system to &amp;quot;English&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;SI&amp;quot;. This feature is very useful for seamless flow as user does not need to adjust display unit anymore in STAAD.foundation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For a detailed list of new enhancements and features please review &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/7563.What_2700_s-New-in-STAAD.foundation-5.3.pdf" title="What&amp;#39;s new in STAAD.foundation 5.3"&gt;What&amp;#39;s New&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; document&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=149665&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD.foundation V8i - version 5.2 update</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-v8i-version-5-2-update" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-v8i-version-5-2-update</id><published>2010-08-31T02:54:00Z</published><updated>2010-08-31T02:54:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;An update on STAAD.foundation SELECT Series 3 (version 05.02) was just released. It&amp;rsquo;s available on SELECT server under &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Enhancements and Updates&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-27-58-94/4774.SELECTSite.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-no-proof:yes;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;Although this download is described as a patch to version 5.2, it includes some very significant enhancements. The foremost enhancement is the introduction of a new option to include self-weight of footing even for factored load cases. The argument can be made that the self-weight and surcharge loads do not need to be included in a factored design as the shear due to these loads will be nullified by resulting excess base pressure. So, excluding self weight from design load cases may reduce footing depth and save reinforcement. STAAD.foundation has followed that principle to design isolated (spread) footing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;But in actual practice, self-weight and surcharge loadings are often included, even for shear and reinforcement design. So, to align the calculation toward the industry standards, a new option added in global setup dialog box to include self-weight and surcharge for shear and reinforcement design. This option will be helpful when the moment or eccentricity is too high, which may result a soil pressure calculation failure. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-27-58-94/2671.GlobalSettings.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-no-proof:yes;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;The next most important enhancement is the run-time for all design engines. Actual design time has been reduced significantly compared to any earlier versions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;Some corrections made to the software related to isolated footing critical moment reporting when the column has a negative offset.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;"&gt;For a complete list of all the changes including what&amp;rsquo;s new in version 5.2, please &lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/5808.What_2700_s-New-in-STAAD.foundation-5.2-with-05.02.02.27-update.pdf" title="check this document"&gt;check this document&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=142296&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="Pedestal Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pedestal%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD.foundation V8i SELECT series 3 (Release 5.2)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-v8i-select-series-3-release-5-2" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-v8i-select-series-3-release-5-2</id><published>2010-07-23T01:49:00Z</published><updated>2010-07-23T01:49:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;STAAD.foundation V8i SELECT series 3 (Release 5.2) is now available on SELECT to download. Version 5.2 is a major update on version 5.1. This version tries to close the gap in terms of number of modules supported by different codes. The US code still supports most design modules, but adding Canadian pile cap design is the right step towards closing the gap.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As promised, Indian pedestal design and British pedestal design are also added. Overall 12 new features are described in the What&amp;#39;s New document along with many major enhancements. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A pre-formatted excel file is included which can be used to import supports, load cases, reactions, column geometry and even jobs. It opens up the possibility of integration with other structural software. This spreadsheet file can be found in the program installation folder.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some of the other new features are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implementation of Context sensitive help. You can press the F1 key to launch relevant help. A toolbar button is also added to make this feature more visible. This tool can be used as an alternate method to launch context sensitive help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-27-58-94/0880.CSH.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fixed length and width options for isolated footing design are now available. In addition to &amp;quot;set dimension&amp;quot; where all dimensions need to be fixed, now there is a nice option to fix only footing length or footing width. This feature is very useful when foundation size is restricted for site conditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-27-58-94/0572.FLFW.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Another nice utility feature is the new option to control the percentage of uplift allowed. This has been a common requested feature from our users. The program will automatically increase footing sizes based on given increment criteria until it satisfies the allowable uplift condition. This parameter can be controlled through &amp;quot;cover and soil&amp;quot; page and applicable only for isolated footing design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-27-58-94/8686._2500_contact-.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Now soil weight on top of a mat foundation can be added for mat analysis without the need of defining pressure loads. Soil density and height can be defined in the &amp;quot;soil property&amp;quot; page. As soil height is defined on each region separately, it allows having different soil thickness at different parts of the same mat. The calculation sheet reports applied soil pressure for each region during analysis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-07-24-31/8231.soil-ovr-mat.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For a detailed list of new enhancements and features please review &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-27-58-94/1663.What_2700_s-New-in-STAAD.foundation-5.2.pdf" title="What&amp;#39;s new in STAAD.foundation V8i (Release 5.2)"&gt;What&amp;#39;s New&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; document&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=137616&amp;AppID=72431&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Apurba Tribedi</name><uri>https://communities.bentley.com/members/240a8cba_2d00_ae88_2d00_4508_2d00_bbd2_2d00_18afdb51d601</uri></author><category term="footing" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/footing" /><category term="Foundation Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Foundation%2bDesign" /><category term="Pedestal Design" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Pedestal%2bDesign" /><category term="Soil" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/Soil" /><category term="STAAD.foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD-foundation" /><category term="STAAD Foundation" scheme="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/archive/tags/STAAD%2bFoundation" /></entry><entry><title>STAAD.foundation V8i SELECT series 2 (Version 5.1) is released</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-select-series-2-version-5-1-is-released" /><id>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/stfoundations_blog/posts/staad-foundation-select-series-2-version-5-1-is-released</id><published>2010-03-17T01:29:00Z</published><updated>2010-03-17T01:29:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;
STAAD.foundation V8i SELECT series 2 (Release 5.1) is finally released. This version is a major update on version 5.0 and specially focused on plant foundations. 
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Plant foundation mode has been revisited and enhanced to align the work flow with the practical needs of practicing engineers. Detailed drawings are updated with customizable drawing notes. Some of the new features are as followings. 
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	&lt;li&gt;Option to design Vertical vessel foundation as Square footing which can be supported on soil or on piles&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/photos/the_bentley_structural_team-gallery/images/118161/original.aspx" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Option to design Horizontal vessel foundation as two isolated footings instead of one combined footing.&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/photos/the_bentley_structural_team-gallery/images/118165/original.aspx" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Option to design horizontal vessel foundation as strap footing (two isolated footing connected by a beam)&lt;img src="http://communities.bentley.com/photos/the_bentley_structural_team-gallery/images/118166/original.aspx" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Lots of verification examples and tutorials&lt;/li&gt;
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&amp;quot;Bearing capacity factor table&amp;quot; is introduced to apply load combination dependent bearing capacity. For instance most code allows 33% increase of bearing capacity for temporary load cases like wind load or seismic load. This table is mandatory for some codes like Canadian code where soil pressure check is done for both un-factored and factored load combinations. The same table can be used to factor bearing capacity for factored load combination. 
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&amp;quot;Ribbed Beam&amp;quot; foundation is added in toolkit mode. This is a special type of foundation where a beam is connected between two columns of a combined footing and is a popular foundation type in India as it saves concrete. 
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Load combination generation table is added for all supported country codes. 
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For a detailed list of new enhancements and features please review &lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/Other/Old_Site_Files/Member_Folders/m/stfoundations_files/118171.aspx" title="What's new in STAAD.foundation 5.1"&gt;&amp;quot;What's New&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; document 
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