• Bending Moment on the local face of plate element

    Hi everyone, I'm wondering about the direction of Mx and My in picture below. Should Mx and My bend around y and x-axis respectively? Thank you for your kind response.
  • Area of Steel Reqd. for Tran. Moment for Load Case ____ exceeds the Maximum Allowable for Element # ______ - STAAD.Pro Connect

    Good day. I was analyzing a model and designing the plates I made at STAAD.Pro Advanced Connect Edition 22.00.00.15. After the run analysis, the result gave the above notice on several plate elements I had. I modeled the plate elements using parametric…
  • Staadpro Plate element compression stiffness and Mz bending stiffness

    Hi everyone, I am modeling the below concrete structure in Staadpro using plate elements. The highlighted column is 1m deep x 0.5m width. I modeled this column using plate element as well. I defined the plate length as 1 m and I assigned a thickness…
  • STAAD Add Plate With More Than 4 Sides

    Hi, I have a 12 sided silo drawn in staad. I need to add a "roof" to it and tried using a plate but I can only create 3 and 4 sided plates. How do I create a 12 sided plate? Also, I need to model this silo at various levels (50% full, 75%, 90…
  • Axial tension from the plate results

    Dear Sir, I am confused while taking the results from the plate results If Sx = 426 kN/m2 and plate size of 0.25m x 0.25m of thickness 0.35m. To get the axial tension = 426 x 0.35 = 149.1kN/m is this correct or I have to multiple again by the…
  • Releasing plate elements from attached beams?

    Here's a situation that seems to come up frequently: I create a model in STAAD that includes a combination of linear elements (for things like beams, columns, etc.) and plate elements (to model surface elements like floors, roofs, etc.). When surface…