STAAD’s full form is Structural Analysis and Design. STAAD Pro is one of the popular software that is used for analyzing & designing structures like – buildings, towers, bridges, industrial, transportation, and utility structures. Designs may include any building structures like tunnels, culverts, bridges, piles, and petrochemical plants; and building materials like timber, concrete, steel, cold-formed steel, and aluminum.

STAAD or STAAD.Pro was developed by Research Engineers International at Yorba Linda, CA in 1997.

To get rid of the boring & time-consuming manual procedures architectural Engineers started using automated software STAAD.Pro

What is STAAD Pro:

STAAD.Pro^® is one of the most widely-used software for developing and analyzing the designs of various structures, such as petrochemical plants, tunnels, bridges, etc. STAAD.Pro^® v8i, the latest version, allows civil engineering individuals to analyze structural designs in terms of factors like force, load, displacements, etc. Multisoft Virtual Academy STAAD.Pro^® v8i online training builds expertise in using the software at a professional level in domains, including construction companies, government agencies, architecture firms, etc.

Participants are equipped with various software functionalities like model generation and editing; loading analysis; concrete designing etc. The STAAD.Pro^® v8i software training also offers proficiency in using seismology; report generation; and steel and foundation design features. After completing the   STAAD.Pro^®    v8i    training,    individuals can work as    Structure Designers, Project Managers, Building Analysts, Quality Analysts, Bridge, Designers, etc.

About STAAD Pro Software Capabilities:

• Analyze for time-dependent effects
• Check designs for cold-formed sections
• Comply with seismic requirements
• Create finite element meshes
• Design & analyze with finite element meshes, structural models
• Design beams, columns, walls, and resisting frames
• Design to international design standards
• Loads and load combinations
• Integrate slab and foundation designs
• Model reinforced concrete, steel
• Structural design documentation
• Share structural models

Why learn?

STAAD.Pro provides a flexible modeling environment, fluent data collaboration, and advanced features. It best structural analysis & design software that supports Indian as well as all international codes.

STAAD.Pro permits structural engineers to design & analyze any type of structure virtually. Structural consultants, structural engineering firms, departments in construction companies, government agencies, owner/operators, offshore platform designers, and many more are extensively using this software.

Learning Objectives:

The course will cover all the steps involved in structural analysis & designing of concrete & steel.

This course will introduce one to STAAD Pro’s state-of-the-art user interface, prevailing analysis and design engines with sophisticated finite element (FEM), visualization tools, and dynamic analysis capabilities.

Some of the features that we focus on in training include:

Model Generation: Generation of an interactive menu-driven model with concurrent 3D display 2D & 3D graphics generation using rectangular or polar coordinate systems Segments of repetitive geometry used to generate complex structural models.

• Model Verification: 2D/3D drawings on-screen and printer/plotter full 3D shapes for frames, elements Isometric, or any rotations for full 3D viewing.
• Static Analysis: 2D/3D analysis on the basis of state-of-the-art Matrix method to handle extremely large Linear, non-linear, p-delta analysis with automatic load & stiffness correction.
• Dynamic/Seismic Analysis: Mass modeling, frequency, and mode shape Response spectrum extraction, analysis of time history Modal damping ratio for individual models.
• Secondary Analysis: Finite element capabilities, concrete design, steel design, and timber Forces & displacements at sections between nodes. Maximum & minimum force envelopes.

Learning Outcome:

• Students will be able to complete object-oriented instinctive 2D/3D graphic model
• Students will learn to use pull-down menus, tool-tip help, and floating
• Students will be able for carrying out flexible zooms and multiple
• Students will know to make isometric & perspective views and 3D
• Students will know the use of simple command language and a built-in command file editor.
• Students will learn how to generate graphics/text
• Students will be able to do efficient algorithms that will minimize disk space
• Students will learn to take presentation-quality printer plots of geometry and results as part of the run output.
• Students will be able to perform accurate and numerically efficient plate/shell element incorporating out-of-plane shear & in-plane rotation; automatic element mesh generation; comprehensive element stress output including in-plane stresses, out-of-plane shear, bending & principal stresses at nodal, as well as, user-specified points.
• Students will learn how to achieve user-specified design parameters to customize a
• Students will know to perform code check, member selection, and optimized member selection consisting of analysis/design
• Students will be able to design concrete beams/columns/slabs/footings as per all major

Course Contents:

• Introduction to STAAD Pro^® V8i
• Model Generation and Editing
• Introduction to Loading
• Automatic Load Generation
• Concrete Design
• Seismology
• FEM / FEA
• Steel Design
• Report Generation
• Foundation Design

Target Audience

• B Students

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