Moving Load Generator Combined with Dead Load in StaadPro

Posted on February 23, 2008 by hadiworks

Sometime we have to face moving load such load produced by mobile traveling crane or vehicle load on a bridge. We
have to determine which location along the length of structure that produce the biggest moment or defflection exerted
from the moving load. This is a paintfull works as we have to make many load cases that describe how the load is
moved.
Some softwares have the ability to calculate the forces exerted from moving load and then combined them with other
load cases such dead, live or with wind load. What happed in StaadPro is so far I know it has no the ability to
combine it with other load cases automatically. Indeed we could use moving load generator in Staadpro but how to
combine them with other load cases?. So with this short explanation will show you on how
staad could combined the moving load and the other loads as well.
Basically, if we use moving load generator in Staadpro say case 1 is for deadload and case 2 to 11 is for moving load
generator. We could combined them in load combination case manually on staad script editor. To make it simple say
that we have a problem in designing a simply supported beam spanned 10m length. Loaded from mobile crane which
has two wheels with force 8Ton each. The spaced between wheel is 1m. Addtionaly
the beam also support a uniform load 0.5T/m on top of it along the length. The problem above can be solved using
staadpro by utilyzing moving load generator after that we have to combined them manually in script editor with dead
load case. The complete staad script is shown below and design result is as follow:
1. Size of beam is H700x300x13x24
2. The stress ratio is 1.04
3. Maximum defflection is 11.701mm
STAAD PLANE
START JOB INFORMATION
ENGINEER DATE 11-Feb-08
END JOB INFORMATION
INPUT WIDTH 79
UNIT METER MTON
JOINT COORDINATES
1 0 0 0; 2 10 0 0;
MEMBER INCIDENCES
1 1 2;
DEFINE MATERIAL START
ISOTROPIC STEEL
E 2.09042e+007
POISSON 0.3
DENSITY 7.83341
ALPHA 1.2e-005
DAMP 0.03
END DEFINE MATERIAL
CONSTANTS
MATERIAL STEEL MEMB 1
MEMBER PROPERTY JAPANESE
1 TABLE ST H700X300X13
SUPPORTS
1 2 PINNED
DEFINE MOVING LOAD
TYPE 1 LOAD 8 8
DIST 1
LOAD 1 DL
SELFWEIGHT Y -1
MEMBER LOAD
1 UNI GY -0.5
1 UNI GY -0.5
LOAD GENERATION 15
TYPE 1 0 0 0 XINC 0.5
LOAD COMB 101 DL+CASE1
1 1.0 2 1.0
LOAD COMB 102 DL+CASE2
1 1.0 3 1.0
LOAD COMB 103 DL+CASE3
1 1.0 4 1.0
LOAD COMB 104 DL+CASE4
1 1.0 5 1.0
LOAD COMB 105 DL+CASE5
1 1.0 6 1.0
LOAD COMB 106 DL+CASE6
1 1.0 7 1.0
LOAD COMB 107 DL+CASE7
1 1.0 8 1.0
LOAD COMB 108 DL+CASE8
1 1.0 9 1.0
LOAD COMB 109 DL+CASE9
1 1.0 10 1.0
LOAD COMB 110 DL+CASE10
1 1.0 11 1.0
LOAD COMB 111 DL+CASE11
1 1.0 12 1.0
LOAD COMB 112 DL+CASE12
1 1.0 13 1.0
LOAD COMB 113 DL+CASE13
1 1.0 14 1.0
LOAD COMB 114 DL+CASE14
1 1.0 15 1.0
LOAD COMB 115 DL+CASE15
1 1.0 16 1.0
PERFORM ANALYSIS
PARAMETER
CODE AISC
CHECK CODE MEMB 1
FINISH