The Nest of Engineers

Loads And Load Combinations: Apply wind and seismic loads using built-in load generators. Calculate loading parameters automatically. Combine lateral load cases with gravity and other types of loads using load combination generators.

Machine Vibration And Settlement: Analyze machine block foundations for dynamic loading. Leverage wizard-based input for fast finite element analysis (FEA) solids model creation, various loading, and soil spring options.

Detail and Document - Reinforced Concrete Drawings: STAAD Foundation Advanced generates drawings for plan, elevation, and sectional views with rebar marks. Schedule drawings provide a summary table for design results. General arrangement drawings include all the footings designed in the project, with grid lines and grid marks that help identify interference. Drawings can be exported to DXF or DWG formats.

Generate Structural Design Documentation: Engineers can produce reports – summaries and detailed calculation sheets – for foundation types such as isolated, combined, pile caps, and foundations for plant equipment. For mat foundations, a powerful reporting system publishes the details of key analysis results, stability checks, detailed and summary reports for concrete design operations, bills of materials, general arrangements, and reinforcement detailing drawings available for ACI 318 codes.

If the type happens to be a pilecap, it can determine a number of pile arrangements and design the pilecap for the arrangment that we choose. Data can also be brought from spreadsheets (e.g., such as that in Microsoft Office Excel) into STAAD Foundation Advanced. The output from the program includes customizable reports of the calculations performed, general arrangement drawings, and schedule drawings. The reports are a useful tool for line by line checks to determine the correctness of the calculations if the engineer wishes to do so. The program’s graphical interface enables users to view the displaced shapes, shear and moment diagrams, stress distribution, and, reinforcement layout.