• Plate Girder Taper

    Hello, Is it possible to model a plate girder where the bottom tapers at the end of the beam while the top stays level? See below picture for reference

  • The Define Profile Polygon button is not active? Do you have any idea why this happens?

  • RE: Create user table and Section wizard

    Within the American Section Database in STAAD.Pro, there are B shapes which are beams (girders) of large depths. If you need deeper than that, you can always add new B shapes to the existing section database. The procedure for that is outlined in the…

  • RE: Members between same joints while modelling Plate Girder Bridges in Staad

    In your model the warnings related to members being between the same joints may be ignored as you have defined offsets. Your model had a number of zero or very small offset values which should be taken out. If you apply full MY MZ releases for the braces…

  • Plate Girder Bridge - Neutral Axis to Calculate Moment at Midspan

    Please see the attached STAAD model as a reference. I am modeling a bridge with four 72" deep plate girders + 10" thick concrete deck on top. I have modeled everything using plate elements and I'm in the process of calculating the midspan moments due…

  • RE: plate girder design -AISC-360-05/10

    The answers to your questions are You can design plate girders in STAAD.Pro using the AISC 360-05 or AISC 360-10 ( CODE AISC UNIFIED 2005 or CODE AISC UNIFIED 2010 ). It was not possible in the older AISC 9th edition ( CODE AISC ) implementation. The…
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