• Design of Solid slab (Conventional slabs)

    Hello Everyone For a while, I was using an Advanced Concrete Design (RCDC) for the design of a solid slab. Today I tried to learn the RAM concept for the slab designs but I saw a design of strips that had never seen before (When I was using RCDC and…
  • ***STAAD.Pro ERROR. JOINT NO 50001 ON PLATE 7000 DOES NOT EXIST.

    Hello. STAAD gives this error yet the joint number is created in the JOINT COORDINATES command, as shown below: Therefore, I am not sure why I am getting this error: Another thing - At the start of the model, I get the following errors and I…
  • WIND ON PLATE ELEMENT

    Hello. I have STAAD model of structure in which I am using beam and plate element. I am using wind load generator to apply wind on beam and plate. But loads on plate is not generated. It is generated only on beams. Advise for how to apply wind load…
  • PLATE ELEMENT MODELLING

    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. …
  • Shear stresses of the plate per unit length

    Question: How to get a shear force per unit length for plate element in STAAD.Pro? Answer : Shear Stresses of the plate are reported in [Force/ unit length/ thickness] units in STAAD.Pro. In order to get shear force per unit length, one has to multiply…