For creating a slab what should i use for designing the slab, Surface meshing or Plate and why ? Thank You !

Is there an easy way to create a cone shaped plate in STAAD? The structure wizard has a spherical shape, but I don't see an easy way to make a cone.

How to assign parameters like compressive strength (FC) and Clear Cover etc. to plate elements.

I'm trying to develop the macro for automatic bill of material generation. I’ve been stuck at getting plate properties. Thickness is ok. I'm using " .Property.GetPlateThickness " But I can't find a way to get the density of plate material. Surprisingly…

Dear members, I want to discuss whether a 4-noded plate is sufficient to represent as a slab or proper meshing along with the supporting beams is required to distribute the load uniformly over the supporting beams. Because if we do not mesh it properly…

Is there any command I can use to rejoin a meshed plate? When I have a 5m x 5m plate for example, and I mesh using 10 divisions, i get 100 smaller plates at 0,5m each. But if I wanted to get back my original 5x5 plate, how could do this?

I'm modeling a 3 stringer short span timber bridge in staad. The model consists of the three beams and deck planks (which are modeled as Plates). All geometry, material properties, supporting, and loading have been assigned. There is only one error in…

I modeled a 3 stringer bridge with plates. I created offsets for the beams, but immediately after doing that dashed lines extending out appeared. Could anyone explain what's going on here?

I'm modeling a short span timber bridge in STAAD, and using plates to model the deck planks. How do I assign either timber or user defined material properties? Also, should I insert nodes at all places I want a deck plane and define a plate there? …

Dear Sir/Sirs, Am new to STAAD Pro. I have designed an intake using plate model. Assigned loads. When i try to analyse following error appears. PRIMARY LOAD CASE CAN ONLY BE ADDED IF SET NL COMMAND IS USED. How can i rectify. Please help. …

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…

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…

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 am modeling a very wide slab (120' x 30') simply supported on two long opposite edges. It would have been a simple one way slab but it has two edge beams on the shorter (30') edges. The slab is 20" deep and the edge beams are 29" deep x 18" wide. I…

Excuse me, I want to plead for help again. I have already finished the geometry shape of the buoys on Staad Pro. Buoy is an object made of plates and serve like a buoy, buoy used as a mediator between the ship was about to stop in the middle of the ocean…

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. …

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…

STAAD Pro outputs plate corner forces in the units lb-in/in or kip-ft/ft, basically moment per unit length in the local coordinate system of the plate elements. So, do I need to multiply the Mx and My at the corners by the plate dimensions parallel to…

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…