Hello, I had a question regarding this simple circular tunnel model shown below. I have the following modeled to check the shear SQY. I know I'm missing something simple here so I hope I can get some help. L=100 ft (total longitudinal length)…

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…

How does Moment distribution and release for beams work in STAAD Pro ? While designing Secondary Beams, I’m releasing the moments MX, MY, MZ to a 100% at their ends. if I keep the ends fixed, I get a hogging moment say ‘ X ’ kN-m at the ends. However…

Dear All, Currently i'm designing a gantry crane. 1. I have assigned the loading from Crab to the gantry beam as moving load (Shows in Red color), But i have no idea how to assign the loading (Shows in Green color) when gantry crane is moving along…

I have designed a steel structure in Staad pro, No errors are found but in output file some members are getting failed. I dont have any ideas in passing those members. If I change section of those members other members are getting failed. please sort…

Hi, I'm modelling a circular silo and assign incline supports and compression only(KFX) supports, but half of the tank support reaction results into X direction is Positive(+) and the other half support reactions into X direction is Negetive (-). Can…

HELLO, Is it possible to design the composite beam and composite column in staad ? if not then how do i design it in staad. with the help of macros or what?

How can i define a new timber material within Staad.Pro with given values for Bending strength etc rather than using a set value such as C16 timber? Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is for my Dissertation.

Hello! I am new to ISM, and am experimenting with it as a central repository for Prostructures design and STAAD Engineering data. It seems to work at first attempt, but I am having an issue with materials. It seems that the mapping of materials from…

hello, 705 715 START FX FZ MX MY 705 715 END FX FZ MX MY . these are the release specification given and one more think is that i my beam is incline.

I mistakenly converted my input file to single line format. Is there any way to get it back to list format without a lot of keyboard time?

There has been a new QA&R posting of STAAD.Pro V8i SELECTSeries 1 (build 20.07.06.35) on the Bentley SELECT server that addresses a number of issues which were not addressed in build 20.07.06.34 released on 18th March 2010. The additional issues addressed…

I need help in STAAD PRO. I am trying to get a moving load to go from one node to another. For example, if I have nodes N1, N2 and N3, and member M1 runs from N1 to N2, while member M2 runs from N2 to N3. How do I get a moving load to move from member…

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…

hello, load and release specified together for member number 705. what does it mean? i have used floor load and release command.

Hi, I'm working in STAAD.Pro V8i I need to define a support with the following: FX - multilinear spring FY - fixed FZ - multilinear spring MX - fixed MY - fixed MZ - releazed So far I successfuly used "FIXED BUT" with Linear…

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