Hi everybody, I have been following this forum for sometime now and i find it very intresting and very informative.
I have a question regarding Staadpro.
How to mark a single beam (from column to column) instead of parts. I know about physical member and Steel designer module but it seems very tedious. Can anyone show a simpler method.
I am using staadpro v8i.
thanks in advance,
napeera
Analytical member segments can only be part of a physical member if these are connected, collinear, have the same cross sectional properties, same material properties & also have the same local axis orientation. Are all of these conditions satisfied for your model? If so, and still the physical members are not being formed as desired, please upload your .std file and let us know one set of member numbers for which this is not working and we will look into it.
Hi Ktno
I have followed your steps but in this process all members are not connecting with each other. Please see attached image. I have tried by both manually and auto form but same things is happening. What can be possible solution in this case?
Thanks
Parshva
Hi. neepara,
There is a way to massive forming of members in Concrete Design Mode. You will need to prepare necessary preparations to do so. If You are ready, we have to go to
1). Menu \Select \ By Section Property \ ...
2). ToolBars \ Autoform Members ...
In this way you can form a lot of members within a short time.
You have to prepare for having element orientations of the member to be in proper order.
Thanks for ... paying attension.
TNO
To get displacements and shear/bending diagrams for the entire physical member you need to define physical members consisting of the analysis segments as indicated in one of the posts below. After you perform the analysis you can change your cursor to the physical member cursor and double click on the physical member and the query box should display the results for the physical member as a whole as opposed to the individual analysis segments.
This may be a general question, but i'm not sure I agree with the comment "limitations of such programs".
In Staad you have all the information along the length of all of the beams (column to column) seperated into segments. Why doesn't Staad simply combing each segment (similar to the physical member in steel design) and show you shear and moment diagrams along the full beam? This would provide a much more realistic way to check for modeling errors and verify designs.