I am worknig with beava. I want to have beava choose the worst case between HS 20-44 lane loading and a truck that I defined. Is this possible?
If this is not possible can I produce a load case of lane loading even if truck loading is the worst case? Thanks.
Karl
dozer
I am in the middle of modeling a curved continuous steel box girder bridge(lots of plates), and am having quite a bit of difficulty pulling off stresses. Reading through staad's manual I have figured out what stresses are output by staad, but like you said "what the heck is a moment per...
I have am using a w30x124 section with a cover plate in STAAD. The cover plate dims. are 14"x0.75". The w30x124's area is 36.5in^2 and the cover plate's area is 10.5in^2 the sum of which is 47.0in^2. When I enter it into STAAD as a member with a cover plate STAAD returns an area of...
I have been using Staad.Beava for a few months now. If everything is done in the correct order it genearally runs smoothly. The latest model I am inputing gives an error message when I try to run the influence surface generator.
"The Influence surrface results are missing or ivalid."
When I...
does anyone have good way to calculate the plastic section modulus(Z) for corrugated steel decking. I created an excel document that I an pretty confident in but the number dont seem to make much sense.
I am looking to purchase Staad Pro. Before I do I was looking to get a question answered. I used staad a bit in school, but only analyzed structures using stick frame models. Can staad model in 3 dimensions, specifically noting width and height of objects (not just stick frames with...
