I am new to Microtran and studying it. I am creating a load combination utilising New Zealand Standard, when I came to create the seismic there is seems to be no choices on Microstran to combine the
dead load, live load to the seismic?.. If there is please assist.
I am also looking for video tutorials and there are only 4 videos and not even a full details?
Is Bently are not marketing the Microstran?
Look forward to received answers
Hi Arnel,
We previously did a Webinar online and its available here :
https://pages.info.bentley.com/video-details/?video=CO_VID_ACDMC_MICROSTRAN&videoDBID=e3a271ca-1dc4-4a61-b7ce-aa5c3e64c710
In Microstran, you define your load cases and your load combinations (i.e, for each load combination you need to designate which load case it constitutes and the load case factor).
There are no Load Case/Combination generation functions in Microstran, you as the user need to input both the load cases and the load combinations.
Our other products - STAAD.Pro and RAM Structural System can readily generated and combine load cases and load combinations.
Having said that, some time saving can be had with the below tool:
https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/w/structural_analysis_and_design__wiki/31151/microstran-excel-addin
It allows adding of load cases and load combinations to Microstran via Excel.
Cheers,
Wentao Zhang
HI Wentao, Thank you for your response. With regards to the load case defination, I did actually deifne my own load case... but when I tend to create the G + EQX + YcQ combination, I could not seem to see the EQX which is missing.