<ul><li><p>STAAD.Pro</p><p>V8i (SELECTseries 2)</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials</p><p>DAA039030-1/0002Last updated: 20 January 2011</p></li><li><p>Copyright InformationTrademark Notice</p><p>Bentley, the 'B' Bentley logo, STAAD.Pro are registered or nonregistered trademarks of BentleySystems, Inc. or Bentley Software, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.</p><p>Copyright Notice 2011, Bentley Systems, Incorporated. 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Use, modification,reproduction, release, performance, display or disclosure of this software and accompanyingdocumentation by the U.S. Government are subject to restrictions as set forth in this Agreementand pursuant to 48 C.F.R. 12.212, 52.227-19, 227.7202, and 1852.227-86, as applicable.Contractor/Manufacturer is Bentley Systems, Incorporated, 685 Stockton Drive, Exton, PA 19341-0678.</p><p>Unpublished - rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States and Internationaltreaties.</p><p>End User License AgreementTo view the End User License Agreement for this product, review: eula_en.pdf.</p><p>i STAAD.Pro</p></li><li><p>Table of Contents</p><p>Introduction 1About STAAD.Pro 1</p><p>About STAAD.Pro Documentation 2</p><p>Section 1 Getting Started 11. Introduction 1</p><p>2. System Requirements 2</p><p>3. Installation and Licensing 3</p><p>4. Starting STAAD.Pro 3</p><p>5. Running SectionWizard 4</p><p>6. Running Mesher 4</p><p>Section 2 Tutorials 5Tutorial 1 Steel Portal Frame 6</p><p>Tutorial 2 Reinforced Concrete Frame 92</p><p>Tutorial 3 Analysis of a Slab 200</p><p>Section 3 Frequently Performed Tasks 291</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials iii</p></li><li><p>IntroductionSTAAD.Pro is a general purpose program for performing the analysis and design of a wide varietyof types of structures. The basic three activities which are to be carried out to achieve that goal - a)model generation b) the calculations to obtain the analytical results c) result verification - are allfacilitated by tools contained in the program's graphical environment. This manual contains threesample tutorials which guide you through the steps required to create, analyze, process, andgenerate reports for each example.</p><p>The first of those tutorials demonstrates these processes using a simple two-dimensional steelportal frame. It is a good starting point for learning the program. If you are unfamiliar withSTAAD.Pro, you will greatly benefit by going through this tutorial first.</p><p>For the second tutorial, we have chosen a reinforced concrete frame. We generate the model,perform the analysis, and design the concrete beams and columns. It contains extensive details onthe various facilities available for visualization and verification of results.</p><p>The modeling and analysis of a slab is demonstrated in the third tutorial. Slabs, and other surfaceentities like walls are modeled using plate elements. Large surface entities may have to be definedusing several elements and this sometimes requires a tool called a mesh generator. This tutorialshows the simple techniques as well as the mesh generation method for generating the finiteelement model of the slab. It also explains the methods by which one can check the results forplate elements.</p><p>About STAAD.ProSTAAD.Pro is a general purpose structural analysis and design program with applications primarilyin the building industry - commercial buildings, bridges and highway structures, industrialstructures, chemical plant structures, dams, retaining walls, turbine foundations, culverts andother embedded structures, etc. The program hence consists of the following facilities to enablethis task.</p><p>1. Graphical model generation utilities as well as text editor based commands for creating themathematical model. Beam and column members are represented using lines. Walls, slabsand panel type entities are represented using triangular and quadrilateral finite elements.Solid blocks are represented using brick elements. These utilities allow you to create thegeometry, assign properties, orient cross sections as desired, assign materials like steel,concrete, timber, aluminum, specify supports, apply loads explicitly as well as have theprogram generate loads, design parameters etc.</p><p>2. Analysis engines for performing linear elastic and pdelta analysis, finite element analysis,frequency extraction, and dynamic response (spectrum, time history, steady state, etc.).</p><p>3. Design engines for code checking and optimization of steel, aluminum and timbermembers. Reinforcement calculations for concrete beams, columns, slabs and shear walls.Design of shear and moment connections for steel members.</p><p>4. Result viewing, result verification and report generation tools for examining displacementdiagrams, bending moment and shear force diagrams, beam, plate and solid stress contours,</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials 1</p></li><li><p>etc.</p><p>5. Peripheral tools for activities like import and export of data from and to other widelyaccepted formats, links with other popular softwares for niche areas like reinforced andprestressed concrete slab design, footing design, steel connection design, etc.</p><p>6. A library of exposed functions called OpenSTAAD which allows you to access STAAD.Prosinternal functions and routines as well as its graphical commands to tap into STAADsdatabase and link input and output data to third-party software written using languageslike C, C++, VB, VBA, FORTRAN, Java, Delphi, etc. Thus, OpenSTAAD can be used to linkin-house or third-party applications with STAAD.Pro.</p><p>About STAAD.Pro DocumentationThe documentation for STAAD.Pro consists of a set of manuals as described below. Thesemanuals are normally provided only in the electronic format, with perhaps some exceptions suchas the Getting Started Manual which may be supplied as a printed book to first time and new-version buyers.</p><p>All the manuals can be accessed from the Help facilities of STAAD.Pro. If you wish to obtain aprinted copy of the manuals, these may be ordered through the docs.bentley.com website. Bentleyincludes the manuals in the PDF format at no cost for those who wish to print them on theirown.</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials</p><p>This manual contains information on the contents of the STAAD.Pro package, computer systemrequirements, installation process, copy protection issues and a description on how to run theprograms in the package. Tutorials that provide detailed and step-by-step explanation on usingthe programs are also provided.</p><p>Examples Manual</p><p>This book offers examples of various problems that can be solved using the STAAD engine. Theexamples represent various structural analyses and design problems commonly encountered bystructural engineers.</p><p>Graphical Environment</p><p>This document contains a detailed description of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) ofSTAAD.Pro. The topics covered include model generation, structural analysis and design, resultverification, and report generation.</p><p>Technical Reference Manual</p><p>This manual deals with the theory behind the engineering calculations made by the STAADengine. It also includes an explanation of the commands available in the STAAD command file.</p><p>2 STAAD.Pro</p><p>Introduction</p><p>About STAAD.Pro Documentation</p></li><li><p>International Design Codes</p><p>This document contains information on the various Concrete, Steel, and Aluminum design codes,of several countries, that are implemented in STAAD.</p><p>The documentation for the STAAD.Pro Extension component(s) is available separately.</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials 3</p></li><li><p>4 STAAD.Pro</p><p>Introduction</p></li><li><p>Section 1</p><p>Getting Started</p><p>1. IntroductionSTAAD.Pro is an analysis and design software package for structural engineering. This manual isintended to guide users who are new to this software as well as experienced users who wantspecific information on the basics of using the program.</p><p>Section 1 describes the following:</p><p>l System Requirements</p><p>l Installation & licensing</p><p>l Running STAAD.Pro</p><p>l Running Section Wizard</p><p>l Running Mesher</p><p>Section 2 contains tutorials on using STAAD.Pro. The tutorials guide a user through the processesof:</p><p>l Creating a structural model. This consists of generating the structural geometry, specifyingmember properties, material constants, loads, analysis and design specifications, etc.</p><p>l Visualization and verification of the model geometry.</p><p>l Running the STAAD analysis engine to perform analysis and design.</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials 1</p></li><li><p>l Verification of results - graphically and numerically.</p><p>l Report generation and printing.</p><p>Tutorial 1</p><p>Tutorial 2</p><p>Tutorial 3</p><p>Section 3 contains some additional information on performing some common tasks inSTAAD.Pro.</p><p>2. System RequirementsThe following hardware requirements are suggested minimums. Systems with increased capacityprovide enhanced performance.</p><p>l PC with Intel-Pentium or equivalent.</p><p>l Graphics card and monitor with 1280x1024 resolution, 256 color display (16 bit high colorrecommended).</p><p>l System memory: Minimum of 512MB, 1 GBbetter, 2 GBrecommended.</p><p>l Windows NT 4.0 or higher operating system. Windows 95, Windows 98 & Windows Meare no longer supported. The program works best on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, orWindows 7 operating systems.</p><p>l Sufficient free space on the hard disk to hold the program and data files. The disk spacerequirement will vary depending on the modules you are installing. A typical minimum is500MB free space.</p><p>l A multi-media ready system with sound card and speakers is needed to run the tutorialmovies and slide shows.</p><p>Additional RAM, disk space, and video memory will enhance the performance of STAAD.Pro.</p><p>Starting with STAAD.Pro Version 2001, the size of structures that the program can handle hasbeen increased significantly. As a result of this, the minimum amount of physical + virtualmemory required by the program also has increased to over 600MB. You may need to ensure thatadequate amounts of virtual memory are available, and in Windows NT and 2000 systems,parameters such as paging file sizes should be large enough or span over multiple drives if the freespace on any one drive runs low.</p><p>Another issue to keep in mind is the location of the TEMP parameter as in the SET TEMPenvironment variable in Windows NT and 2000 systems. While performing calculations,depending on the structure size, the program may create gigantic scratch files which are placed inthe folder location associated with the TEMP parameter. Users may wish to point the SETTEMP variable to a folder on a drive that has disk space sufficiently large to accommodate therequirements for large size structures.</p><p>You should have a basic familiarity with Microsoft Windows systems in order to use the software.</p><p>2 STAAD.Pro</p><p>Section 1 Getting Started</p><p>2. System Requirements</p></li><li><p>3. Installation and LicensingPlease refer to the document titled Quickstart & Troubleshooting Guide (Quickstart.pdf),whichis included in the installation package.</p><p>After the installation is completed, select Quickstart & Troubleshooting Guide from the WindowsStart menu in All Programs >Bentley Engineering >STAAD.Pro V8i.</p><p>Figure 1-1: Quickstart</p><p>4. Starting STAAD.Pro1. Select the STAAD.Pro icon from the STAAD.Pro V8i program group found in the Windows</p><p>Start menu.</p><p>The STAAD.Pro window opens to the start screen.</p><p>Section 1 Getting Started</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials 3</p></li><li><p>Figure 1-2: The STAAD.Pro window displaying the start screen</p><p>If you are a first time user who is unfamiliar with STAAD.Pro, we suggest that you go throughthe tutorials shown in Part II of this manual.</p><p>5. Running SectionWizardSection Wizard consists a set of utility programs used to generate custom sections for use inSTAAD.Pro.</p><p>1. Select one of the program icons located in the Section Wizard folder in the STAAD.ProV8i program group found in the Windows Start menu.</p><p>Note: For help on using this program, refer to the Section Wizard help accessed from thesame location or from within the individual programs.</p><p>6. Running Mesher1. Select the Mesher icon located in the STAAD.Pro V8i program group found in the</p><p>Windows Start menu.</p><p>Information on using this program is available from the Help menus of the program.</p><p>4 STAAD.Pro</p><p>Section 1 Getting Started</p><p>5. Running SectionWizard</p></li><li><p>Section 2</p><p>Tutorials</p><p>Getting Started and Tutorials 5</p></li><li><p>Tutorial 1 Steel Portal FrameThis chapter provides a step-by-step tutorial for creating a 2D portal frame using STAAD.Pro.</p><p>1.1 Methods of creating the modelThere are two methods of creating the structure data:</p><p>1. Using the graphical model generation mode, or Graphical User Interface (GUI) as it istypically referred to.</p><p>2. Using the command file</p><p>The Command File is a text file which contains the data for the structure being modeled. Thisfile consists of simple English-language like commands. This command file may be createddirectly using the editor built into the program, or for that matter, any editor which saves data intext form (e.g., Notepad, TextPad, Notepad++, etc.).</p><p>This command file is also automatically created behind the scenes when the structure isgenerated using the Graphical User Interface.</p><p>The graphical model generation mode and the command file are seamlessly integrated. So, at anytime, you may temporarily exit the graphical model generation mode and access the commandfile. You will find that it reflects all data entered through the graphical model generation mode.Further, when you make changes to the command file and save it, the GUI immediately reflectsthe changes made to the structure through the command file.</p><p>Both methods of creating our model are explained in this tutorial. Sections 1.3 through 1.6 explainthe procedure for creating the file using the GUI. Section 1.7 describes creation of the commandfile using the STAAD.Pro text editor.</p><p>6 STAAD.Pro</p><p>Section 2 Tutorials</p><p>Tutorial 1 Steel Portal Frame</p></li><li><p>1.2 Description of the tutorial problemThe structure for this project is a single bay, single story steel portal frame that will be analyzedand designed. The figure below shows the structure.</p><p>An input file called Tut-01-portal.std containing the input data for the above structure hasbeen provided with the program. This file contains what would otherwise have resulted had wefollowed the procedure explained in Section 1.7.</p><p>B...</p></li></ul>
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