Hello Sir,
I am designing steel frame building using ASD method but during analysis staad is giving me the error " Each load combination must be followed by perfom cable analysis then change". unfortunately i am unable to solve this error. please help me with that.
You were attempting to do a Nonlinear Cable Analysis but there was no pretension load defined which is essential. I added a pretension of 10KN ( you may change as needed). The bigger question is whether the nonlinear cable analysis is required or not. Are these members that you assigned as cables, really cable members or are these rods ? If these are rods you may as well model these as TRUSS. Also when you are using a nonlinear cable analysis, each load case has to be a complete case by itself with selfweight and all components. You should not do a cable analysis with just the wind load ( for example load case 7 to 14 ). Also if you go with a nonlinear cable analysis, your load combinations should be replaced by REPEAT LOADs. These can be very easily handled through the command editor as explained for the load case 15 below
LOAD COMBINATION :
…
LOAD COMB 15 DL+RL
5 1.0 6 1.0
REPEAT LOAD :
LOAD 15 DL+RL
REPEAT LOAD
A partly modified file is attached for your reference. Hop this will give you some direction.
2068.Structure1.std