Dear Colleagues,
current version : STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition - Version 22.12.00.142
there was a situation where we had to find out the lateral forces due to wind on a light pole (tapered profile) and provide suitable support for the same.
Wind was applied using Wind Load generation and Open type and we had the forces transferred to STAAD.Foundation and completed the task.
however recently when recently we had to repeat the exercise noticed that STAAD seemed to have considered the average width of the overall member instead of the ones in each respective pressure zones.
can we include this load variation along tapered sections in future STAAD.Pro releases? (for regular sections, other than angles, the wind load seemed to work fine, when the plain surface / face of the member was normal to that of the direction of wind applied)
(sorry I'm unable to use the proper words, so I made a comparison Load / Moment / Displacement and have attached a sample staad & excel... seeing the huge variation in the displacements & moments, I guess the previous attempt to automate, lead to un-optimized results )
Wind-Load-Generation.STD 1376.Wind-Load-Generation.xlsx
You may propose this as an enhancement request here: https://staadpro.ideas.aha.io/The product management team will review this and consider its implementation in the upcoming releases of STAAD.Pro. Other users will be able to vote for this suggestion and raise the possibility of implementing this feature.
Modestas said:You may propose this as an enhancement request here: https://staadpro.ideas.aha.io/
thanks Modestas, i have parked this idea here: staadpro.ideas.aha.io/.../SP-I-216