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Click here to see a short
movie on the new
advanced connection
interface in
STAAD.Pro 2004 SE


Handle various types of connections for shear, moment, splice, bracing and seismic.
Full analysis and design of standard or user-defined configurations
All forces and stresses are automatically passed from STAAD.Pro 2004 SE to DESCON within the STAAD.Pro environment and checked for each load case. No manual input of any forces, member properties or materials!
Detailed schematic of each connection produced with option to export to DXF. Add drawing to your STAAD.Pro report
Full step-by-step calculation for each connection design is provided to verify all answers
Do hundreds of connections at one time!
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Moment connections include:
Bolted or welded flange plates
4 or 8 bolted end plate • Tee-stubs
Column web reinforcement and stiffeners
Connection to column web
AISC Seismic Provisions
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Splice connections include:
Beam splice with bolted plates
Column splice with bolted/welded plates
 

Shear connections include:
Bolted/welded clip angles
Single plate
End plate
Seated connection with welded plate stiffener
Seated connection with bolted tee stiffener
Beam to girder
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Brace connections*
  handle Chevron, Knee, and K- Braces as well as braces connected to column base and Beam-Column joints where up to four braces and two beams may exist. Designs and/or checks the brace to gusset connection, gusset plates, gusset to beam and column connections, and the local stresses in the column and beams
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FEMA 350 connections include:
Welded Unreinforced Flanges - Bolted Web (WUF-B)
Welded Unreinforced Flanges - Welded Web (WUF-W)
Free Flange (FF)
Reduced Beam Section (RBS)
Welded Flange Plate (WFP)
Bolted Unstiffened End Plate (BUEP)
Bolted Stiffened End Plate (BSEP)
Bolted Flange Plate (BFP)
Double Split Tee (DST)
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Including:
• ASD and LRFD Shear and Moment
  Connections (US units)
• ASD and LRFD Bracing Connections
  (US units)*
• FEMA 350 Seismic Connections
   (US units)

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*Only ASD/LRFD shear, moment and FEMA connections shipped in the first release.
Other modules to be shipped by March, 2005.
Valid only with STAAD.Pro 2004 SE. Offer expires March 31st, 2005.
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