ASD Concrete Design in STAAD?

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ACI 318, which is the concrete design reference for STAAD, is in terms of LFD. Appendix A of ACI 318 gives criteria for designing concrete members using allowable stress. Is it possible to use the allowable stress method in STAAD to design concrete? Anyone know? I'm thinking no but thought I'd check this forum out...

 

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For anyone who's curious, the answer is no. STAAD does not provide for ASD concrete design.

 

[edward1]

Breaks, I have used Staad to design using ASD. What I do is calculate the allowable stress in the reinforcing steel to limit crack width fs=z/(dcA)^.33 . For most of my work I use z= 98 ksi. The allowable stress is most often about 26 ksi to 28 ksi. I divide 60 by this allowable to get a load factor to use in the design. This gives conservative results.