About Courses
Staad Pro V8i Advance
Learning
Objectives:
The course
will cover
all the
steps
involved in
the
structural
analysis
&
designing of
concrete
& steel.
This course
will
introduce
one to STAAD
Pro’s
state-of-the-art
user
interface,
prevailing
analysis and
design
engines with
a
sophisticated
finite
element
(FEM),
visualization
tools, and
dynamic
analysis
capabilities.
Some of the
features
that we
focus on
this course
include:
Model
Generation:
Generation
of an
interactive
menu-driven
model with
concurrent
3D display
2D & 3D
graphics
generation
using
rectangular
or polar
coordinate
systems
Segments of
repetitive
geometry
used to
generate
complex
structural
models.
Model
Verification:
2D/3D
drawings
on-screen
and
printer/plotter
full 3D
shapes for
frames,
elements
Isometric,
or any
rotations
for full 3D
viewing.
Static
Analysis:
2D/3D
analysis on
the basis of
state-of-the-art
Matrix
method to
handle
extremely
large work.
Linear,
non-linear,
p-delta
analysis
with
automatic
load &
stiffness
correction.
Dynamic/Seismic
Analysis:
Mass
modeling,
frequency,
and mode
shape
Response
spectrum
extraction,
analysis of
time history
Modal
damping
ratio for
individual
models.
Secondary
Analysis:
Finite
element
capabilities,
concrete
design,
steel
design, and
timber
design.
Forces &
displacements
at sections
between
nodes.
Maximum
&
minimum
force
envelopes.
Learning
Outcome:
Students
will be able
to complete
object-oriented
instinctive
2D/3D
graphic
model
generation.
Students
will learn
to use
pull-down
menus,
tool-tip
help, and
floating
toolbars.
Students
will be able
for carrying
out flexible
zooms and
multiple
views.
Students
will know to
make
isometric
&
perspective
views and 3D
shapes.
Students
will know
the use of
simple
command
language and
a built-in
command file
editor.
Students
will learn
how to
generate
graphics/text
input.
Students
will be able
to do
efficient
algorithms
that will
minimize
disk space
requirements.
Students
will learn
to take
presentation-quality
printer
plots of
geometry and
results as
part of the
run output.
Students
will be able
to perform
accurate and
numerically
efficient
plate/shell
elements
incorporating
out-of-plane
shear &
in-plane
rotation;
automatic
element mesh
generation;
comprehensive
element
stress
output
including
in-plane
stresses,
out-of-plane
shear,
bending
&
principal
stresses at
nodal, as
well as,
user-specified
points.
Students
will learn
how to
achieve
user-specified
design
parameters
to customize
a design.
Students
will know to
perform code
checks,
member
selection,
and
optimized
member
selection
consisting
of
analysis/design
cycles.
Students
will be able
to design
concrete
beams/columns/slabs/footings
as per all
major
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