Material problems
Material problems
(OP)
I have been trying to do concrete buildings in staad. I have columns and beams as members and slabs and walls as plates. In each attempt to model it in staad, whenever i run an analysis it says something about material constants not defined. I always define members and plate by going to create and specifying it there. To solve the problem i will put "all" beside the alpha, beta etc. This then stops the analysis the program running. Why is it then that i always seem to be getting problems with regards to defining a material.





RE: Material problems
Good Luck
Thomas
RE: Material problems
Mesh generation automatically splits beam elements. For some reason, the new beam elements don't inherit the material properties of the original beam... Uh-oh, better assign those material properties again.
What I've found that works best is to edit the input file in the STAAD editor. I'd say that I got "really good" at STAAD simply by getting intimate with the input (and output) file. The GUI is fine, but you've got to "see" everything and the best way (my experience) to see it is in the raw text format.