• Design of Solid slab (Conventional slabs)

    Hello Everyone For a while, I was using an Advanced Concrete Design (RCDC) for the design of a solid slab. Today I tried to learn the RAM concept for the slab designs but I saw a design of strips that had never seen before (When I was using RCDC and…
  • Specifying a pinned connection

    As per the title, how do I get Staad to analyse a connection as a pinned joint?
  • steel design query

    hello everyone i am design the steel building i staad pro . now if the beam is continuous say 10 m and i am having the node at the ends. the say i'm getting the beam section as pass with iswb 450 and if i am inserting the node in between the beam say…
  • Re: Slab Element in Staad

    yes i know the said thing but in actual practice we have different conditions for plate such as simply supported, fixed etc. then in space frame with the model say 3*3 bay both sides and height of building say 20 meter then in that case if i am using…
  • converting beam parts into single beam

    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…
  • Single Line Format <-> List format

    I mistakenly converted my input file to single line format. Is there any way to get it back to list format without a lot of keyboard time?
  • SmartPlant 3D- STAAD.Pro interface through CIS/2 translator

    Hi! I am trying to import SmartPlant 3D Structural model to STAAD.Pro through CIS/2 translator. I am able to import steel sections of Indian Section library. But I am unable to import Rectangular Section (Prismatic member not available in STAAD Section…
  • composite beams & slabs

    Hello everybody, I am having some doubt about the slab orientation in composite slab design tab. the question is that if i want to design the solid slab connected with steel beam then what is to be done should i take the span as spanning between the…