STAAD

Structural analysis and design software

Perform comprehensive analysis and design for any structure

STAAD is a comprehensive structural finite element analysis and design application that provides you with powerful visualization capabilities and a wide range of international design codes. Using an easy-to-use intuitive interface, engineers can automatically convert physical models into an analytical model for a more streamlined workflow while conducting structural analysis. STAAD makes it easy to integrate structural analysis into a BIM workflow and share synchronized models for multi-discipline collaboration. STAAD’s powerful analysis capabilities allow you to perform analysis on any structure exposed to static, dynamic, wind, earthquake, thermal, and moving loads.

Because every firm has different needs, there are three flexible STAAD variations:

STAAD.Pro – The most basic STAAD option including FEM analysis and physical modeling
STAAD.Pro Advanced – Adds more advanced and complex analysis
Structural WorkSuite – The most popular structural applications in a single, cost-effective license

Design using any material

Design steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel structures anywhere in the world using included international design codes, regardless of which STAAD option you choose. Plus you can produce automated steel drawings directly from STAAD mode.

Save time with automation

Automatically convert your physical model into an analytical model to streamline your workflow.

Improve collaboration

Streamline multi-discipline team collaboration through broad interoperability with Bentley desktop and cloud and mobile applications like OpenBuildings Designer, AutoPIPE, Revit, and Tekla. Optimize concrete and steel BIM workflows with the full integration of physical members and surfaces. View and edit models from mobile devices.

Perform advanced analysis with confidence

STAAD undergoes the most demanding quality and testing program. Our procedures follow the requirements of 10CFR Part 50 Appendix B, 10CFR Part 21 and ASME NQA-1, which means STAAD has been approved for use on the design of nuclear power installations. STAAD offers many types of analysis ranging from finite element analysis to more complex seismic analysis.

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Technical Capabilities

User Interface

Graphical capabilities. Models can be created quickly and accurately using structural grids, tooltips to highlight data, frame generators, and a structure wizard for standard structural frames
Visualization. From simple wire frames for speed, accuracy, and ease of use to fully rendered 3D models for clear mass distribution and presentation
All new advanced IDE style Editor with IntelliSense, Database Integration, and context-sensitive help
Meshing capabilities. Triangular or quadrilateral meshes created from zones within defined models or imported from DXF files
Load generators. Seismic UBC, IBC, ASME wind and snow, bridge loading BEAVA
Customizable interface with VBA tools. Create windows and tables to your own specifications. SQL query builder
STAAD Building Planner. Special modeling environment for building structures. Operations like defining geometry, making changes in the geometric specifications are matters of only few clicks in this workflow.

Intraoperability

RAM Connection. Joints defined in the model with the forces calculated from the analysis can be passed into the leading connection design application
Bentley AutoPIPE. Pass the STAAD.Pro structural steel frame into AutoPIPE to correctly account for the pipe support stiffnesses and import the pipe engineers support reactions back into the model for an accurate design in a fraction of the time of traditional methods
STAAD Foundation Advanced. Import the STAAD support reactions and positions directly to design the structure foundations
RAM Concept. Floor slabs can be identified and linked to RAM Concept for full RC and PT design and detailing in a state-of-the-art application
ProStructures and OpenBuildings Designer. Two-way link to support creating models with design and construction documents
OpenSTAAD is an API from which STAAD data can be extracted directly into custom programs or applications such as Microsoft Word or Excel. You can even use OpenSTAAD to drive the creation of STAAD.Pro models, run the analysis, and view the results with your own interface
CAD, DXF. Use CAD models as the base wire frame, structural grid, or outline of a complex deck that needs to be meshed
CIS/2. Exchange data with other steel design packages

Objects

Beams. Standard linear, curved and physical beams, compression/tension only, with databases of sections from around the world
Plates. 3- or 4-noded 2D plates and surface objects with holes
Solid. Solid 3D bricks from 4- to 8-noded
Supports. Foundation and multilinear springs
Loads. Full range of loads for static and dynamic analysis that can be defined explicitly or calculated using the wide range of load generators

Analysis

Elastic. Traditional first order including iterative one-way analysis
P-Delta. Both large and small P-Delta including stress-stiffening effects
Imperfection. Account for imperfections in structural geometry
Dynamic. Modal analysis including stress-stiffening eigen solution and steady-state options, time history, and response spectrums
Advanced solver, the staple of STAAD for over 20 years is now up to 1,000 times faster
Section Wizard. Calculate properties of built-up sections, drawn freehand, parametrically defined, or imported from a CAD drawing

Post Processing

Interactive graphics. Linked tables and windows to get direct feedback from one item in related windows
Output file. Simple clear information to verify the analysis
User report. Create high-quality documents
Contoured stress plots. Using automatic or user-configured scales, colors, and limits
Animations. View displacements, stress contours, or mode shapes dynamically

Design and Documentation

Steel Design: Choose from over 50 regional design codes
- Integrated with the analysis process
- Integrated steel drawing production using Steel Autodrafter
- Chinese steel design module available
- Concrete Design
  - Basic Concrete Design: Select from 18 design codes. Quick and integrated with analysis process
    Advanced Concrete Design. 12 additional regional design codes. Integrated concrete design, detailing, and drawing production (requires STAAD.Pro Advanced)
- Timber. Support for design codes such as US, Canada, Eurocode
- Aluminum design (US)

System Requirements

Intel Pentium or AMD processor 2.0 GHz or greater

Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1 or 7 32 or 64 bit OS

1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended. Additional memory potentially improves performance, particularly when working with larger models. 4 GB or more can help speed up solutions for very large complex models with large numbers of load cases.

Requirements will vary depending on the modules you are installing. A typical minimum is 500 MB free space.