Recent content by Sye123

From within the software help go to Verification Manual and refer to section 5 which contain details of how the different values are calculated for the ACI code. If you still have questions, please reach out to Bentley technical support.

Few suggestions: Make sure you are using REPEAT LOADs to combine load cases and not LOAD COMB. This is essential since you are using compression only springs. Make sure you are including both gravity and lateral loads in cases that you are interested in. Connectivity between beam elements and...

Yes aspect ratio 1:1 is ideal. We should try not to exceed 4:1.

As has been suggested by multiple posters in this thread, the interpretation of element stresses does not change for triangular plates. Visualize a cross section of unit width and depth = thickness of the element, at the location where the stress is being reported and that would help in...

Steve : What is the version of STAAD.Pro you are using ? If not the latest (STAAD.Pro 22.07.00.160), I would suggest using that. This version or as a matter of fact any of the recent versions, should not have this issue.

I assume you are referring to the reactions displayed graphically within the reactions box vs those shown in the Support Reactions table ? Can you please upload the .std file and also let us know about the version number of the software you are using? I have to take a look at the model first...

Yes I have seen this happening when using the mouse scroll. You may go to the Structure Diagrams > Scale. Check the box named “Apply Immediately” and then you can use the up and down arrow keys to adjust the scale dynamically for any of the items. This should not have the problem. To answer to...

Hey Josh, No worries. Good to know that you are with CSI. It's a small world. All the best.

Just want to add that the contribution from Mxy is considered in the computation of global moments in STAAD.Pro. If you go to the Bentley Communities forum, you will find a wiki article titled "Global Moments in Plates" which explains this calculation with an example.

STAAD.Pro does report Global Moments as you mentioned. You may go to the Postprocessing mode > Plate Results > Go to the Plate Center Stress table and there will be a tab named Global Moments. For meshing where local axes of plates are not oriented the same way and not oriented along the global...

The stability analysis requirements spelled out in Chapter C of the AISC 360-16 specifications is fully implemented in STAAD.Pro. However the provisions of Appendix 1, go far beyond accommodating the pdelta effects (large + small), accommodating imperfections through notional loads and...

Using enforced support is the correct approach. Please make sure that you are putting in the settlements with proper signs at the right support locations. Also since plate stresses are reported with respect to local axes of plates, please make sure that all your plate local axes are oriented the...

PLATE MAT DIR Y with compression only attribute would be adequate for the bottom.

humanengr : Not sure if your engineers are using the STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition as that has a new GUI and a new physical modeler specifically for those who prefer physical modeling. STAAD Foundation Advanced (for foundation design) and RAM Connection (for the connection design) are tools that...

You mentioned about the roof beams not being connected. For the load to be distributed correctly, you need to ensure that connectivity between the structural members is proper. The fact that the software is selecting small sections for the columns, may have something to do with the fact that...