Good day Everyone, I wish to design a shear wall manually (by hand) using the output from my analysis in staad. Therefore I modeled the shear wall using plates rather than the surface option, however I find it quite difficult to get useful values…

I am trying to compare the vertical reaction I am getting in piles of an abutment of a 15m span railway bridge with manual calculation. I have modeled the abutment but the reaction I am getting is not representing the actual scenario. I am getting warnings…

Good Day Everyone, I wish to analyze and design an underground cistern (tank) using STAAD Pro. However, I would like some advice as it relates to the supporting conditions for the base plate. Based on my idealization I used plate meshes to form my surrounding…

Hi, I am currently using the RSS version 15.03. I've completed the shear wall design with graphical reinforcement output. However, i cannot seem to output the design report (which i could easily do with Column Design). Is the function available…

I'm trying to use RAM Concrete for shear wall design, however the bar templates whether manual or auto only appear to have US bar sizes not UK ones. This is of regardless of which design code is selected. For instance in the UK a 16mm dia bar is popular…

Hello Everyone, I have modeled a two-storey building in staadpro using three methods and I have gotten varying results. The three scenarios I tried are as followed: 1. I modeled the structure with only the structural frame (ie. beams and columns…

Can staad plates can analyze and design a shear wall? If can meaning plates can carry shear force and axial forces? Because I'm designing residential and client want as soon as possible they want column should same width of a hollow blocks let say…

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…

Greetings, I have a very large and complex machine to be modeled and to be analyzed in STAAD Pro. This machine is very huge made of plates and beams. Now since I am modelling most component as plate. I have few queries:- 1. Is it necessary to mesh…

I have a couple questions on plates in RAM Elements. 1. Can you model a plate with different boundary conditions. i.e. Fixed sides, pinned bottom and free top or some combination of these? 2. Sorta relating to the above - Is there a good way to model…

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. …

I am designing a bottom ash hopper. They want to model the hopper as plate elements and apply normal as well as tangential pressures on plates due to stored ash. i have calculated the pressure at different depths and have applied the normal pressures…

When checking a Mat Foundation Job, after: analysis; Moment Envelope Generation and Design Parameters; one can use the Moment Capacity Check . One can enter the reinforcing and materials parameters and then check capacity vs. the moment diagram. I've…

I recently encountered problems combining solids and plates all in one file. The problem was in inputting physical properties for these types. STAAD manual prescribed a way to overcome this, but I couldn't get around it. Can someone post a command sequence…

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…

Hi, I am designing a mat foundation supporting a steel structure. I am asigning the loads from the columns as NODAL LOAD. I do not think this is the right approach because I have a base plate that distributes the load from the column uniformly…

hello everyone, anybody can help me to work out the issue, which showing the following warning after running analysis. *WARNING* PLATE NO. 4(JOINTS 51 - 53 - 52 - 50) IS BADLY SHAPED, WARPED, NOT CONVEX, OR NOT NUMBERED COUNTER-CLOCKWISE.…

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…

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 have modelled a rectangular concrete tank in STAAD using plate elements and need to do some additional calculations to check the crack widths do not exceed a given value. I can get a contour plot of the bending moments in the walls but when the tank…

Hello everyone' Guys I Have a problem, I need ur help very urgently, SEE THE ATTACHED image, and other DETAILS AS MENTIONED BELOW, or u can find the image from google (in google image option just type wall form panel and first image will show u…

I am performing a dynamic analysis (Response Spectrum) for a Structure with 2 basement levels. I have some queries regarding the use of STAAD commands to model the soil - structure interaction. Results of static and dynamic analysis are…

1. How can we model offsets(connecting two corner nodes) in plates, I used an element with the same thickness but w 10x the E, Is this reasonable enough or what are the other ways? 2. Is there a way to rotate the local axis (x and y axis) of elements…