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STAAD.Pro is the choice of 47 out
of 50 leading Structural Engineering firms, 46
out of 50 state DOTs and 7 out of the top 10 engineering
universities. STAAD.Pro features
a state-of-the-art user interface, visualization
tools, powerful analysis and design engines with
advanced finite element and dynamic analysis capabilities.
From model generation, analysis and design to
visualization and result verification, STAAD.Pro
is the professional’s choice for steel, concrete,
timber, aluminum and cold-formed steel design
of low and high-rise buildings, culverts, petrochemical
plants, tunnels, bridges, piles and much more!
Why STAAD.Pro?
- STAAD.Pro was developed by practicing
engineers for practicing engineers around the
globe. It has evolved over 25 years and is constantly
guided by a premier industry-based steering
committee. For static, pushover, dynamic, P-delta,
buckling or cable analysis, STAAD.Pro
is the industry standard.
- STAAD.Pro meets the rigid requirements of NUPIC/NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) by conforming to the 10CFR PART 50, APPENDIX B, Section II, "Quality Assurance Program" and ASME NQA-1-2000 (Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications) standards. Development, maintenance, and support are all based upon the highest quality standards.
- STAAD.Pro has building codes
for most countries including US, Britain, Canada, Russia,
Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Finland,
Sweden, India, China, Euro Zone, Japan, Denmark,
and Holland. More are constantly being added.
- STAAD.Pro is fully COM (Component
Object Model) compliant and is designed using
an open architecture. Any third party or in-house
application can be seamlessly integrated with
STAAD.Pro. Also, STAAD.Pro
can be customized to perform the specific structural
requirements of the user.
- STAAD.Pro's User Interface is
the industry standard. Complex models can be
quickly and easily generated through powerful
graphics, text and spreadsheet interfaces that
provide true interactive model generation, editing,
and analysis. STAAD.Pro easily
generates comprehensive custom reports for anagement,
architects, owners, etc. Reports contain only
the information you want, where you want it.
Add your own logo as well as graphical input
and output results. Export all data to Microsoft
Word or Microsoft Excel!
- STAAD.Pro suports multi-material
design codes such as timber, steel, cold-formed
steel, concrete and aluminum. Over the past
25 years, our customers have designed everything
from residential buildings to skyscrapers to
tanks to tunnels and even a piano! STAAD.Pro's
dynamic and soil-structure interaction capabiliities
along with our exhaustive design output sets
STAAD.Pro apart from our competitors.
English Channel Tunnel 
NASA Launch Pad 
First National Center
"We have been using
STAAD in our office since 1990. It has become
one of our essential design tools for all types
of structures. "
David E. Ernest, P.E.
Senior Civil Engineer
Metso Minerals Industries Inc.
"Nelson & Pope Engineers
have successfully been able to increase revenues
and efficiency by 4x on all of our structural
projects because of STAAD. Such multipliers are
rare in the industry today and the results are
a combination of our STAAD Certified Engineers’
in depth knowledge of the codes (UBC, IBC 2000,
SBC, AASHTO, ACI), and years of experience using
the software for design and analysis at our firm."
Jackman J. Prescod, SCE
Structural Department/Project Manager
Nelson & Pope Engineers
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| STAAD.Pro
2007 New Features |
- New Start Page to access commonly accessed functions
- Enhanced Grid Tool to work with multiple grids, store for later use, reuse on other projects and use DXF files
- Fly-out toolbars to free up desktop real estate
- Physical Member Query
- In-plane area loads on plates to model friction loading
- Hot rolled channels can now be defined as front to front to complement the back to back definitions
- Automatic property calculation of User Provide Table (UPT) angle sections
- Tool to consolidate multiple property references
- Section property reduction in analysis to account for cracking
- Tension / compression only spring supports easier to define
- Enhanced ELASTIC MAT / PLATE MAT options
- New Reference load cases for primary loads that do not require analysis in themselves
- Enhanced Beta Angle Definition and Assignment
- P-Delta analysis including stress stiffening effect of the KG matrix
- P-Delta analysis including small Delta
- Modal Analysis including stress stiffening effect of KG Matrix
- Buckling Load analysis
- Enhanced Master/Slave command processing
- New Advanced Solver substantially faster for large model problems
- New Eurocode 3:2005 steel design
- New static check table to view equilibrium checks previously only available in the output file
- New Beam and Column designs to the Russian Concrete code SP52
- New RAM Connection Design Mode to design steelwork connections with both basic and smart connections
- Enhanced link to AutoPipe with persistency of pipe models across STAAD.Pro sessions
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Ease-of-Use STAAD.Pro is designed for engineers,
by engineers who understand the process of modeling,
analyzing and designing a structure. Our 25+ years
of experience, along with suggestions and input
from practicing engineers, has helped make STAAD.Pro
the easiest-to-use Structural Analysis and Design
software on the market today. The following key STAAD.Pro tools
help simplify ordinarily tedious tasks:
- The STAAD.Pro Graphical User
Interface incorporates Research Engineers’ innovative
tabbed page layout. By selecting tabs, starting
from the top of the screen and heading down,
you input all the necessary data for creating,
analyzing and designing a model. Utilizing tabs
minimizes the learning curve and helps insure
you never miss a step.
- The STAAD.Pro Structure Wizard
contains a library of trusses and frames. Use
the Structure Wizard to quickly generate models
by specifying height, width, breadth and number
of bays in each direction. Create any customizable
parametric structures for repeated use. Ideal
for skyscrapers, bridges and roof structures!
To help simplify modeling complicated
structures, STAAD.Pro’s Graphical
User Interface can accept cut and paste data from
a spreadsheet program such as MS Excel. For example,
nodes for curved geometry, which can be defined
using a hyperbolic function, can be computed in
MS Excel, then cut and pasted into STAAD.Pro,
eliminating hand calculations. This is especially
useful for structures like bridges, cooling towers,
pressure vessels, and roller coaster tracks. |
