• Error in Design - Simple Steel Flat Truss

    Hello All, I have modeled a simple steel truss to check my hand calculations. When viewing the global status of the model, the diagonal members are shown to have "Errors in Design." The members all have ratios from 1.84 to 3.6. However, my…
  • RE: Truss member not being tensioned

    First thing to do is to change the structure type from TRUSS to PLANE as shown next. STAAD PLANE *STAAD TRUSS Secondly your member 8 is not split at the node 19 and so there is no connection between members 8, 20 and 3. You need to make these intersect…