STAAD.Pro With Advance Concepts

This will help you to have different views and to handle the model.

Repeat commands will help in modelling of repetitive elements and circular command will be specially helpful in circular structures like aerator, circular tanks etc. Mirror will help in having reflected geometry.

These are special commands for specific use of creating nodes in between.

These are options to have a look on cross section profiles of the members. You must know how to use HELP of this software to understand the various commands effectively.

Dimensions - This will help you to measure different elements. Input and Display units - This is very crucial command; one can be changed many times and other not at all.

This will help you to select the desired elements swiftly with variety of options.

This will help to manage what should be seen on screen & what not.

If the elements are properly renumbered, This will help to work quickly on software.

Grouping once defined will help in quick selection and assignment of various commands.

Assigning of various commands to specific elements will be handled with this command. Also, you need to know various keyboard shortcuts to work quickly on software.

Knowing global and local axes is not enough, we also need to know the detailed concepts of these axes and application part of these, as without this we can not study the OUTPUT file. Not only for beams, columns or bracings, we also need to understand the axis of plate elements.

Many times we need to switch the start and end joints. We need to put some Text on Dislplay for Temporary time. We need complete 3D view many times. All these will be covered in this part.

These are some options to customize your STAAD environment along with control on element information visibility.

Many geometries are readily available in STAAD Pro. Let’s learn about that.

Geometrical mistakes can be caught up with this command in STAAD Pro.

As a Structure Engineer, you must know, how to define and assign Releases to different members. Releases need to be defined at each and every connection. Not only that, we need to understand what is the meaning of these releases. what does it mean if we release FX, FY, FZ, MX, MY or MZ or even there may be combination of these – say release MY and MZ both. What does this imply and w.r.t that, how do we achieve these releases of various forces and moments at actual site for RCC as well as for Steel Structures.

Similar to Releases, we must know what does it mean if we fixed the foundation about one direction and release about other. Otherwise, in academic we learned only about piined and fixed supports. We may release FX, FY, FZ, MX, MY or MZ or even there may be combination of these in support releases. – say release MY and MZ both. What does this imply and w.r.t that, how do we achieve these releases of various at actual site in Base Plate and Anchor bolt arrangements.

We will cover various type of loading and load combinations along with its Industrial application and example.

Project Schedules are always running short of time. Let’s understand these commands to help this situation.

Do You know? most of the Professional engineers prefer STAAD EDITOR as compared to STAAD Graphics for quick and smart work. We must know the syntax of many of the graphics commands to serve the critical project schedules.

RUN ANALYSIS is not the final step, We also need to learn about the numerous errors and warnings which we encounter and also how to resolve the same.

While working on actual project, you come across, numerous results such as reactions, axial forces, shear forces, Bending moments, Torsion values, deflection of nodes and beams, base pressure etc. So, we need to know all these in detail and how to extract required reports from this.

We have to understand the thin difference between summary & Envelope and their application in Industrial projects.

Parameters like LY, LZ, UNL, MAIN, DFF, DJ1, DJ2 are of utmost importance in STEEL Design. We can not design a single tiny structure without having knowledge of these parameters and its applications. Literally, there is No meaning of learning STAAD, if we do not have detailed knowledge of Design Parameters.

Similarly, Parameters like CLEAR, ELY, ELZ, FYMAIN, FYSEC, TRACK are of utmost importance in RCC Design. We cannot design a single tiny structure without having knowledge of these parameters and its applications.

While designing the structures, We need to understand STAAD output in detail. We need to interpret the design results, permissible stresses, deflection values, and most importantly impact of all design parameters on the STAAD output.

This Interaction Ratio decides the member size, it decides the cost of the structure, it decides efficiency of the Engineer rather. This is extremely important factor for a Structure Engineer which decides Structure Optimization.

Complete steps for the design of an element of a structure need to be learned and then followed in all projects. Let's go through it.

Let's understand sequence of all steps, geometry-loading-analysis-design etc.

Designing the structure for environmental load cases is very critical aspect of the design.

Which means modelling, loading and analysis of plate elements for Retaining walls, slabs, pits, foundation etc. We also need to interpret the moment values for different direction reinforcement areas.

You will be given enough of Assignments to check yourself whether you are now well acquainted with all the above learnings or not.