When I run start the design process I get the following in a small popup window called "Design messages":
Member 29: Tension reinforcement could not be designed in span 1Member 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 0.000 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 0.250 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 0.550 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 1.100 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 1.587 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 1.619 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 2.138 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 2.656 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 3.175 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 3.694 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 4.213 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 4.731 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 4.762 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 5.250 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 5.800 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 6.100 mMember 29: Insufficient tension reinforcement at 6.350 m
...and the list goes on for ALL beams in my model along their complete span. No matter what parameters I change in the beam design brief nothing changes. I'm using ACI 318M-05.
This almost happens in any model I have ever used in STAAD, so I'm basicly using STAAD now just for analysis, I then do my design calculations on excel sheets...I'm trying to get more professional and efficient than using excel here so what am I missing?
I would so much appreciate if there is a database of these error messages that Bentley can collect in one place in the help explaining how to overcome these errors, perhaps a set of tutorials too in the Bentley institute that will cover these various error messages.