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Base Plate Modeling in STAAD - Pro 2007
Base Plate Modeling in STAAD - Pro 2007
STAAD.Pro 2007
By
24 March 2007
Introduction:
Base plates are normally designed using codebase procedures (e.g. AISC-ASD). Engineers
often run into situations where there are no codes
available to design a particular type of a base
plate or there are instances where base plate were
simply over designed in the past and the engineer
has to check the design of this old base plate
based upon new loadings and make
modifications as required.
In these situations, an engineer may opt to do a
finite element analysis on the base plate.
STAAD.Pro 2007 is equipped with a lot of mesh
generation and loading tools. The purpose of
this document is to demonstrate how engineers
can analyze base plates using STAAD.Pro 2007.
Exercise Problem:
We would like to create the following base plate
geometry in STAAD.Pro. This base plate was
used to support a tank leg. The tank leg pipe
diameter is 0.9ft and the thickness of the pipe is
0.5 in thick.
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Loading:
173. Select the General->Load control tab on the
left.
174. Click on Load Case Details tree item in the
Data Area.
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Analysis Results:
Specifying Analysis Type:
194. Click on the Postprocessing tab at the top.
190. Select the Analysis/Print control tab on the
left. The Analysis/Print Commands dialog
box will appear.
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