STAAD Question
STAAD Question
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I am trying to model the bending effects of self weight in a column section, subject to an initial deflection at mid-height, and doing a p-delta analysis. The initial deflection is required because otherwise, there would be no bending. Does anybody know how you would do this in STAAD?






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I must be doing something wrong, because when I do what you're telling me, I get a warning that says "support displacement in released direction ignored".
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I could be wrong here, but STAAD only does first order analyses and the type of P-Delta analysis that it runs won't work in this situation as a second order analysis.
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