Presentation STAAD Pro

Dear Students
• The impact of environment and consumer demand

has made a practicing engineers life real challenging.
• Every new design is unique and challenging.
• Every design engineer is aware that the knowledge

and techniques available are quite limited when
compared to the complexity of problems encountered.
• Designer must be aware of the tools that
can help, then design better products and
at an optimum investment.
CADD CENTRE
has understood the exact need of a structural
Engineer and devised curriculum that meets
the Designer's expectation.

• It is the professional’s choice for steel, concrete,
timber, aluminum and cold-formed steel design
of virtually any structure including culverts,
petrochemical plants, tunnels, bridges, piles and
much more.
• V8i –
• Bentley calls V8i the most comprehensive
and release in its history.
• i–
• The “ i ” in the new V8i version stands for :
– Intuitive, interactive, intrinsic, incredible, and
interoperable.
Hardware Requirements
– PC with Intel Pentium or equivalent.
– Graphics card 7 monitor with 1024 X 768
resolution,256 color display( 16 bit)
– I GB RAM or higher.
– Windows 2000, XP and Windows 7 or higher OS

SESSION 1
Introduction
• Structural Engineering:
– Structural Engineering is a field of engineering dealing
with the analysis and design of structures that support
or resist loads.
– Structural Engineers are responsible for engineering

and design.
• Entry level engineers ---> Individual structural element.
• Experienced ’’ ---> Integrity of an entire system.

• Structure:
– It can be defined as an assembly of interrelated or
interdependent parts forming a more complex, unified
whole and serving a common purpose.
– The super structure is the vertical extension of a building

above the foundation.
– Columns, Beams and Load bearing walls support floor and

roof structures.
– Any structure develops internal forces in its component

members known as “structural Elements”.
Research Engineers International company
– In 1982 – No windows– Command based
• 1 st Version STAAD.Pro-III
– In 2000 - 2005
• Staad.Pro 2000 …… ,
– After 2005
• Bentley 2005
• Bentley Staad
– After 2007
• STAAD.Pro-V8i
Based upon Orientation
1) Global Coordinate Systems
This coordinate is apply to whole structure or
model Generation.
Length  X Direction
Breadth  Z Direction
Depth  Y Direction
Global Coordinate
Local Coordinate Systems
This coordinate is apply to every individual

structure parts
Length  X Direction
Breadth  Z Direction
Depth  Y Direction
Local Coordinate
3-D Render view
Types of Structures
• Space structure:
• Accept for any configuration of geometry & loading.
• Permits 3 dimensional structures.
• Permits loading in any direction.
• Coordinate system follows right hand rule.

• Plane structure:
• Accept only for 2 dimensional modes in the X Y plane
with no loads or deformations perpendicular to this
plane.
• All loads & deformations are in the plane of the
structure.
• Truss structure:
• Permits loading in any direction, but members only provides
axial resistance.
• Members cannot resist bending and shear loads.
• Permits 3 dimensional structures.
• Permits deformations in all global directions.
• Coordinate system follows right hand rule.

• Floor structure:
• Accept for 2 dimensional models in the X Z plane with
loading and deformations perpendicular to this plane.
• All loads and deformations are parallel to the global Y
axis.
Basic definitions in structural
Analysis and Design
• Stress:
• The force of resistance offered by a member per unit
area is called Stress.
– Stress =Force/Area(P/A)M/mm2
• Strain:
• The ratio of change in length to the original length of
the member is called Strain.
– Strain =dl/l
• Young’s Modulus:
• Within the limits of elasticity, the ratio to the linear
stress to the linear strain is termed the modulus
elasticity or Young’s modulus.
– Young’s modulus = Stress/Strain
» It describes stiffness of material properties.
• Poison Ratio:
• The ratio of transverse contraction strain to longitudinal
expansion strain.
• Density:
• The mass per unit volume of a substance.
– Density= Mass/Volume
• Shear force:
• The sum of vertical forces at a given section of member.
• Bending Moment:
• The algebraic sum of all the moments at a given section
of member.
• Structural Analysis:
• The calculation of the response of structures to actions.
• Design:
• Design of a structure is to access the loads and to
provide members of sufficient proportions to resist
assessed loads with a sufficient margin of safety.

Manual Design Cycle
• Create 2-D Plan (Auto CAD or Equal Software)
• Create 3-D Model ( Revit or 3ds Max, Archicad)
• Model Generated (Staad.Pro or Ansys civil, Pro Steel)
1. Position of Beam & Column(centre line based)
2. Size (Properties)
3. Loads
4. Analysis Print & Run analysis
5. Design
6. Safe. (If is not safe to repeat steps 2-6 )
• Nodes :
• Stiffed joints with 9 reactions. It is located at each end
of beam, corner of plate. It hold the following,
– Node Number
– Node Coordinate in XYZ space.

• Beams :
• Any member in the structure. It can be column, beam,
bracing member or truss member. Beams are actually
defined based on the Nodes at the ends.
– Beam Number
– Node Numbers at its ends.

• Plates :
• A thin shell with multi- nodded shape starting from 3
nodes. It can be any thing of slab, wall or raft
foundation.
– Plate Number
– Node Numbers at each corner of it.
Working Example
Joints X Y Z
1 0 0 0
2 1.5 0 0
3 3 0 0
4 4.5 0 0
5 6 0 0
6 1.5 1.5 0
7 3 3 0
8 4.5 1.5 0
MEMBERS Joints
1 1 2
2 2 3
3 3 4
4 4 5
5 1 6
6 6 7
7 7 8
8 8 5
9 2 6
10 3 7
11 4 8
12 3 6
13 3 8
Method
1) Staad Editor  Command based
2) GUI
a) Through Graph,
b) Tabular columns,
c) Structural wizard library,
4) Tools bars, menu bars.
 Start  Staad.Pro  Staad.Pro page will appear
– Select Advanced Analysis Engine & Global Design

Code in License Configuration
– Click the New Project in Project task
-Select Any one Type of Structure & Length and Force Units.
-Give File Name and File Location
-Click Next.
-Select Any one Type of Geometry to that kind of your projects.
-Click Finish.
-Staad Editer page appears in Staad.Pro Project page .
-Type the coordinate & joint values in Staad Editor page .
-Save and close the page.
-The above Truss structure model will be Generated .

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Dear Students

• The impact of environment and consumer demand

• Every new design is unique and challenging.

• Every design engineer is aware that the knowledge

can help, then design better products and

Engineer and devised curriculum that meets

the Designer's expectation.

timber, aluminum and cold-formed steel design

of virtually any structure including culverts,

petrochemical plants, tunnels, bridges, piles and

and release in its history.

– Intuitive, interactive, intrinsic, incredible, and

– PC with Intel Pentium or equivalent.

– Graphics card 7 monitor with 1024 X 768

resolution,256 color display( 16 bit)

– Windows 2000, XP and Windows 7 or higher OS

– Structural Engineers are responsible for engineering

• Experienced ’’ ---> Integrity of an entire system.

– The super structure is the vertical extension of a building

– Columns, Beams and Load bearing walls support floor and

– Any structure develops internal forces in its component

This coordinate is apply to every individual

• Accept for any configuration of geometry & loading.

• Permits 3 dimensional structures.

• Permits loading in any direction.

• Coordinate system follows right hand rule.

• Accept only for 2 dimensional modes in the X Y plane

with no loads or deformations perpendicular to this

• All loads & deformations are in the plane of the

• Permits loading in any direction, but members only provides

• Members cannot resist bending and shear loads.

• Permits 3 dimensional structures.

• Permits deformations in all global directions.

• Coordinate system follows right hand rule.

• Accept for 2 dimensional models in the X Z plane with

loading and deformations perpendicular to this plane.

• All loads and deformations are parallel to the global Y

• The sum of vertical forces at a given section of member.

• The algebraic sum of all the moments at a given section

• The calculation of the response of structures to actions.

• Design of a structure is to access the loads and to

provide members of sufficient proportions to resist

assessed loads with a sufficient margin of safety.

• Stiffed joints with 9 reactions. It is located at each end

of beam, corner of plate. It hold the following,

– Node Coordinate in XYZ space.

• Any member in the structure. It can be column, beam,

bracing member or truss member. Beams are actually

defined based on the Nodes at the ends.

– Node Numbers at its ends.

– Select Advanced Analysis Engine & Global Design

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