• RE: Warning message-"The member is not a Truss member"

    The design as per IS:802 is carried out for axial load only and so when designing the members, the software is expecting only axial forces to be present in the members, which is what happens when these are specified as TRUSS members. If you have not declared…
  • Vertical and roof Truss design

    Hi, I really need help. I am trying to design an open warehouse made of steel truss roof and column. I keep on getting joint instability on one of my support. I don't know if what I did was right in my modelling process. Should I separate the design…
  • Resolve warning "Zero Stiffness in Direction... at Joint... Eqn. No..."

    I created a model and analyzed. There are 0 errors, but 26 warnings. 24 warnings are "Zero Stiffness in Direction... at Joint... Eqn. No..." and the other two are "There were more than 12 DOF with zero stiffness". How can these warnings be resolved…