The document provides steps for analyzing and designing a steel truss using STAAD software. It describes building a 3D model of the steel truss by creating construction lines and drawing members on them. It outlines defining member properties by assigning sections, material properties, and supports. It details applying loads by creating load cases and combinations and assigning them to members and nodes. The document serves as a tutorial for using STAAD to model geometry, apply loads, and analyze the steel truss.
The document provides steps for analyzing and designing a steel truss using STAAD software. It describes building a 3D model of the steel truss by creating construction lines and drawing members on them. It outlines defining member properties by assigning sections, material properties, and supports. It details applying loads by creating load cases and combinations and assigning them to members and nodes. The document serves as a tutorial for using STAAD to model geometry, apply loads, and analyze the steel truss.
The document provides steps for analyzing and designing a steel truss using STAAD software. It describes building a 3D model of the steel truss by creating construction lines and drawing members on them. It outlines defining member properties by assigning sections, material properties, and supports. It details applying loads by creating load cases and combinations and assigning them to members and nodes. The document serves as a tutorial for using STAAD to model geometry, apply loads, and analyze the steel truss.
The document provides steps for analyzing and designing a steel truss using STAAD software. It describes building a 3D model of the steel truss by creating construction lines and drawing members on them. It outlines defining member properties by assigning sections, material properties, and supports. It details applying loads by creating load cases and combinations and assigning them to members and nodes. The document serves as a tutorial for using STAAD to model geometry, apply loads, and analyze the steel truss.
The figure above shows a steel truss from several trusses
supposed to cover a certain area. As shown, the truss has a cantilever part its span equals 4.0m. The proposed truss depth is 3.0m.The loads as shown, are concentrated at the truss joints. The values of its load case are shown. Use all the data you take in the Steel Course for analysis and design. 5
Main Steps of Modeling
Entering job information. Building model geometry. Defining member properties, sections. Assigning loads (load cases, combinations..) Defining pre-analysis print out, analysis type, and post-analysis printout. Defining design requirements.
How to Start the Program?
From Start Menu - Select the STAAD.Pro icon from the STAAD.Pro 2004 program group.
The STAAD Graphical Environment will be invoked and the
following screen will appear:
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1. ENTERING JOB INFORMATION.
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2. Building Model (Structure) Geometry
How to Define the Truss Geometry? One of the methods that you can create construction lines and then draw on these lines the truss members.
Noting that the number of
construction lines is excluding first line.
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How to see the Diagram Labels (ex. Node numbers, beam numbers, etc.?
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Node and beam labels are a way of identifying the
entities we have drawn on the screen, and very useful when dealing with the output results.
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3. Defining member properties, sections
Property: In which we can define or choose sections properties of the members of the truss. Spec.: In which we can define or choose members specifications. Support: In which we can define the supports properties (restraints). Load: In which we can define the applied loads, load cases, load combinations. Material In which we can define the material properties. (ex. E, density, etc.) 17
Property:
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Assigning the sections created to the model
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Supports
By clicking on the support
icon the shown window will appear. We have to create new kinds of supports.
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4. Defining Loads The creation and assignment of load cases involves the following two steps: 1. First, we will be creating all 3-load cases. 2. Then, we will be assigning them to the respective members/nodes.
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Also, we can define load combinations according to required.
For example, we can create a load combination 1.25 D.L. + 1.5 L.L + 0.8 W.L.
