Hi, Im working in StAAD v8i on plate elements. Some regions are reversed that is when i enable the option to fill the elements, I can see elements on the outside as gray color and element faces on the inside as green colour. But some elements are green…

im doing a mat foundation design and use plate elements in my model. at first i did the plate elements in MIDAS because its much easier for me to model the plates there.so i printed out the nodes and plates from MIDAS and paste it in staad editor. …

I'm modeling of a building, which consists of 140000 concrete plate elements. I want to assign thickness to all plates, but it's impossible. Even if I asign numbers of plates to thickness in std editor, staad "forgets" that. Maybe model consists…

I have a query regarding how to model a steel deck plate (6mm thick) supported on 100x65x7thk angles which are fully welded to the underside. The floor is made up of 533 deep UB sections spaced at 4m centres. The angle stiffeners span 4m between the beams…

Hi, I'm modeling a structure that consists of a series of concrete columns spreaded on the perimeter of a rectangular shape building, and attached to a channel concrete caps that running on top of perimeter columns, then the channel beam is connected…