MODELLING ERROR..CHECK COLUMN DIMENSIONS AND CLEAR DISTANCE at SFA

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Error at STAAD Foundation Advanced. Please help me identify the cause. Thank you. Tagaytay Vacation House-r9_Foundation_foundation.sfa

Kris Sathia · Accepted Answer

If you are looking for a way to model a foundation for a shear wall, and if the wall is monolithic with the footing, you first ought to create a superstructure model where the wall is modeled using a number of shell elements. Specify the supports of the wall as fixed so that support reactions would be generated from the analysis of the wall. Then import that model into SFA (or launch SFA from within STAAD.Pro), select all those supports and create a mat foundation. The reactions from the superstructure model would then be transferred as loads on the mat. 
 A combined footing would work but if there are more than 3 supports, a mat foundation is a better model.

MODELLING ERROR..CHECK COLUMN DIMENSIONS AND CLEAR DISTANCE at SFA

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