Structural Analysis

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Template Editing
Instructions and Feedback

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1. Menu Bar
• Located near the top of the screen.
• Gives access to all of the STAAD.Pro menu functions.
• Many of the same functions are also available from the Toolbar and
from the Page Control.

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2. Tool Bar
• Located near the top and left side of the screen.
• Gives access to the most frequently used commands.
• Individual tool bars are dockable - layout can be reconfigured.
• Customized tool bars can be created.
• Hover the cursor over any icon for Tool Tip Help.

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3. Main Window
• Central area of screen where the model and graphical results are
shown.
• Background color can be set to either white or black using the
Configuration… option in the Project Tasks section of the Start
Page.

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4. Status Bar
• Displayed at the bottom of the screen.
• Presents helpful information regarding the status of the program.
• Displays pertinent information for the current page, such as hints
for using the current command, current program operating mode,
cursor position, current input units, etc.

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5. Page Control
• A set of tabs to the left of the Main Window.
• Page Control can be closed from within the Mode menu to free
the screen area for other uses.
• Each tab allows you to perform specific tasks.
• Organization of the Tabs, from top to bottom, represents the
logical sequence of operations in STAAD.Pro.
• Generally progress through the tabs from top to bottom and
enter all the data that are relevant to your project.

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5. Page Control
• Tab names may or may not appear on the tabs depending on
screen resolution and size of STAAD.Pro window, but the icons on
the Page Control tabs always appear.
• Each tab contains sub-tabs.
• The tabs that display depend on the current Mode of operation,
which can be set from the Mode menu in the Menu Bar.

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6. Data Area
• Generally appears on the right side of the screen.
• Displays dialogs, tables, lists, and so forth.
• Context-sensitive to the type of operation being performed.

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STAAD.Pro Structural Entities
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1. Nodes
• Points of connectivity between
structural entities.
• The terms “joint” and “node” are
synonymous.

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2. Beams
• Linear structural members.
• The terms “member” and “beam” are
synonymous.
• Use of the term “beam” should not be
taken to imply that the member cannot
resist an axial load. (Beam entities are
used to model beams, columns, braces,
etc…)

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3. Plates
• Finite elements commonly
used to model “surface
structures” such as walls,
slabs, plates or shells.
• May be either 3-noded
(triangular) or 4-noded
(quadrilateral).

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Displaying Structure Labels
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Symbols and Labels

• The Labels page is an extremely
useful page that is used frequently.
It provides options for labeling
Nodes, Beams (Members), Plates,
Solids, Surfaces, Physical Members,
Loads, Properties, General display
information, etc...

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Editing Structure Geometry
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Modify the Structure Geometry with the
STAAD.Pro Editor
STAAD Editor
As you create your structure
using the graphic interface,
STAAD.Pro converts your actions
into a command language and
stores them in a command file, a
simple text file in ASCII format.
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In the STAAD.Pro editor, STAAD.Pro
keywords, numeric data, comments,
etc., are displayed in distinct colors:
Red = Commands
Black = User-defined text labels and names
Blue = Numerical values
Green = Remarks and comments
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Mirroring Structure Geometry
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Mirror
Mirror command does not create a
duplicate member or duplicate
nodes at the center of the truss.
STAAD.Pro will not duplicate any
members that lie in the mirror
plane. To have STAAD.Pro prove
this for you, follow the step-by-step
instructions below.

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Verifying the Absence of Duplicate
Translational Repeat
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Translational Repeat
is another way of creating
multiple copies of members, and
it has some advantages over
simply copying and pasting the
members.

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Identifying and Removing “Orphan Nodes”
Orphan nodes are those nodes
with no structural attachment to
the rest of the model. They can be
created, for example, by
inadvertent clicks on a grid during
modeling or by incomplete editing
in the STAAD Input File Editor.

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