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Scaring up STAAD work

Scaring up STAAD work

Scaring up STAAD work

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Lately it's been a bit slow for me so I was thinking about somehow chasing down some STAAD work through some marketing I haven't tried before. But that left me wondering: what to try? STAAD can be used for other things besides building design (it does (after all) have a variety of elements).....but I don't think I've seen it used for much else but that. (Seems like (for example) programs like ANSYS are used mainly for product design.)

Any ideas?

RE: Scaring up STAAD work

STAAD's plate and solid elements are pretty terrible for general purpose work, and not really comparable to higher end finite element software. They'll do the job for flat panels and maybe very simple shells, but that's about all I'd be comfortable with.

RE: Scaring up STAAD work

I've used STAAD (now I use RISA) FEA elements to design buried precast utility vaults. The FEA elements allows you to accommodate opening sizes and shiplap joints letting you capture accurately the effects they have on the structure. I'm sure you could find a market for that with local precasters. (except for in New England! :P)

Professional Engineer (ME, NH, MA) Structural Engineer (IL)
American Concrete Industries
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanConcrete/

RE: Scaring up STAAD work

How are you capturing shiplap joints in either software? Curious to know

RE: Scaring up STAAD work

Out-of-plane shear release and moment release on one side of the joint, moment release on the other side of the joint. Allows axial loads to transfer as they should while transferring shear and flexure elsewhere to the more rigid components. I can show you an example if you like.

Professional Engineer (ME, NH, MA) Structural Engineer (IL)
American Concrete Industries
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanConcrete/

RE: Scaring up STAAD work

No, makes sense as described. I thought at first you were actually modelling the joint itself. I've usually just split out individual trenches and pinned the ends but your way is more accurate.

RE: Scaring up STAAD work

Although solid modeling options in STAAD.Pro are limited in the sense that there are no sophisticated meshing tools available for solids ( and this is something that is going to be available in future ) but STAAD.Pro is extensively used for analysis of plate models. I have seen numerous user models with plates elements ranging from buildings with irregularly shaped floors with openings, cutouts, irregularly shaped mats to walls, tunnels, underground tanks, hydraulic structures, retaining walls, bridges, chimneys, ducts, stadiums and what not. There are good meshing tools available in the software for plate modeling and there is an extensive set of verification examples related to plate models. So if you have not used STAAD.Pro for plate models, I would definitely suggest giving it a try. You can define shiplap or any other type of joints. There are member releases/plate releases that you can use to control transfer of forces across a joint.

RE: Scaring up STAAD work

It might be worth looking at mentoring young companies who are using the software for projects that are considered large or specialized for them that you are already familiar with. This would allow you to focus on STAAD modelling at your own office then having meetings via Skype or trading markups and comments via Bluebeam, for example. One downside that comes to mind would be introducing more competition into your market though.

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