Dear sir,
What does it mean when the out put of staad for column design says that " The number of iterations exceeded 500" ?
regards
ramakumar
Mr. Nihesh.
I am attaching the staad file as told you. I am using the staad pro version 20.07.03.16.
The out put file for column design for some columns is saying" **** ITERATIONS EXCEED 500. WHILE CALCULATING COLUMN MOMENT CAPACITY.
I would also like to know whether any report /data is available listing the errors,warning and the reasons for their occurance.
Dear Sirs,
Sorry for digging up such an old topic. But I came across this thread on searching for this warning. I am confused by this response. Theoretically, I would assume that if the warning is an indicator of member having failed, the output should not include results (Steel reinforcement required). However, the output is including required reinforcement (and it is not necessarily near 4% - in some cases it is less than 3%). Please clarify.
Thanks in advance
Arunkumar Srinivasan
Request clarification for my query above... Further, I am clarifying that this is not in reply to Mr. Bijay's post just above mine, but with respect to Mr. Nihesh's post (just above Mr. Bijay's post)
Thanks again
The program is automatically increasing % of Reinforcement and starting with a new round of iteration. After 500 iteration, it fails to calculate the capacity. This message indicates that column design in incomplete. The program is able to calculate the % of Ast required from the column. Then, it tries to distributes the reinforcement. After providing the reinforcement, the program is calculating capacity based on the provided reinforcement. It fails in this process.
Dear Sir,
If the column design is incomplete, why is STAAD displaying the steel requirement along with the warning? Are you implying that the Column design is safe, but STAAD is unable to compute the IR?
Arunkumar
If you get this kind warnings, it indicates that the program is unable to report IR correctly.