STAAD Pro

ANALYSING AND DESIGNING

STAAD Pro abbreviation

ST - Structural
A - Analysis
A - And
D - Design
Pro - Program
 Introduction

 STAAD PRO is a Structural Analysis design program application

 It includes a state of the art user interface, visualization tools and
International design codes.
 It is one of the application created to help structural engineers to
automated their tasks and to remove the tedious and long
procedures of the manual methods.
 Analysis

To calculate
 Stress distribution
 Natural frequencies
 Displacement
 Inertial forces
 Critical Buckling load
 Design
To calculate
 Section Property
 Area of steel
 No. of bars
 Spacing between the bars
 Stability
shrinkage
elongation
hogging
sagging
 Types of Structures

 A TRUSS structure consists of truss members which can have

only the axial member forces and no bending in the members.
 A PLANE structure is bounded by a global X-Y coordinate
system with loads in the same plane.
 A SPACE structure, which is 3 dimensional framed structure
with loads applied in any plane.
 A FLOOR structure is a 2 or 3 dimensional structure having no
horizontal movement of the structure
 Workflow
 Modeling -Input Nodes, Beams, Plates
 Material Properties -Input Property of Member
 Section properties -Input Specifications
 Support specification -Input support
 Assign Load -Input Loading Systems
 Perform Analysis -Specify Analysis Type
 Analysis -Run Analysis and verify Results
 Design -Design consideration
 Model Generation

There are basically 4 methods of generating a model

 Snap node method
 Coordinate method
 Copy Paste Method
 Run Structure Wizard
Snap node method Co-ordinate method
Copy Paste Method Structure Wizard
Tools icon

Drawing cursor

Zooming icons

View Port Configuration

Rotational icons

Selection cursors
 Model editing tools
 Move
 Mirror
 Rotate
 Stretch Selected Members
 Intersect Selected Member
 Merge Selected Member
 Split Beam
 Renumber
 Break Beams Along Nodes
 Material Property
 Elasticity Kn/𝑚𝑚2
 Density Kn/𝑚𝑚3
 Young’s Modulus no unit
 Poisson’s Ratio no unit
 Damping Ratio no unit
 Shear Modulus no unit
 Thermal Coefficient /℃
 Compressive strength Kn/𝑚𝑚2
 Grade of steel Kn/𝑚𝑚2
 Ultimate strength Kn/𝑚𝑚2
 Assigning Property
 Prismatic
Circle
Rectangle
Tee
Trapezoidal
General
Tapered I
Tapered Tube
 Steel Table

 Angle
 Angle with lips
 Channel
 Channel with lips
 Zee
 Zee with lips
 Hat
 Aluminum Table
 H Beam
 Army/Navy I Beam
 I Beam
 Army/Navy Tee
 Tee
 Army/Navy Channel
 Channel
 Special Channel
 American Standard Channel
 Rectangular
 Square
 Round
 Pipe
 Assign Profile

 Angle
 Double angle
 Beam
 Column
 Channel
Assigning to Structure
Support Specification

 Pinned
 Fixed
 Fixed But
 Enforced But
 Enforced
 Inclined
Assigning The Support
 LOADING
 Any structure is subjected to basically these types of loads
Dead Load
Live Load
 Dead load includes the self weight of the structure while live load
consists of super imposed load.
 In addition to a structure subjected to wind and seismic or
earthquake forces.
 While designing a structure subjected to wind and earthquake
forces we also have to provide definitions along with various load
cases.
 After creating various load cases we have to assign them to the
structure. For this we have to first select that part of the structure
on which load has to be assigned and then assign it to the part
 In case of structures subjected to wind and earthquake forces,
then there is a need to wind and seismic definitions.

 After providing these definitions only the load cases should be

entered.
 Analysis
 After all the above stated steps a structure has to be analyzed.
 Analysis of a structure means to find out the reaction and
displacement and deflections at various nodes of a structure.
 After analysis we are able to see shear moment and deflection for
each member.
 After performing analysis another window which contain a report
of analysis gets opened. This window shows the warning and
errors which might have occurred.
Shear Bending

Deflection
 Post Processing
 In the post processing mode we are able to see the reactions,
displacements, deflections, shear force and bending moments for
various members.
Support Reactions

Max Shear Force

Max Bending Moment

Bending Moment Diagram

Deflection

Beam Stress
 Design

 After analysis a structure has to be designed to carry loads acting

on it considering a certain factor of safety.
 In India structures are designed by using various Indian codes for
both concrete and steel structures.
 The design in STAAD Pro supports over 70 international codes
and over 20 U.S codes.
 After designing the structure it is again analyzed and results of
analysis for each beam and column is shown in the output file.
 Design

Concrete Design

Steel Design Aluminum Design

 Concrete Design

Select Parameter

Code Selection
 Design Commands

Define Parameter
Assign The Parameter
 Steel Design

Select Parameter

Code Selection
 Design Commands

Define Parameter
Assign The Parameter
 Aluminum Design

Select Parameter

Code Selection
 Design Commands

Define Parameter
 Results

Concrete Design

Steel Design
 RC Designer
 Beam Design
 Column Design

 PROCEDURE
Creating new envelope
Forming Members
Creating Brief
Adding Group
Design
 Steel Design

 PROCEDURE
Creating new envelope
Forming Members
Creating Brief
Adding Group
Design