AD.2007-1001.2.

5 Advanced Solver

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STAAD.Pro 2007 Build 1001 Release Report

AD.2007-1001.2.5 Advanced Solver
Purpose
A new substantially faster analysis engine has been produced which can provide solutions of large structures in a fraction of the time currently required by the standard STAAD engine. The Advanced Solver generally uses less disk and memory as well.

Description
The Advanced solver is a new addition to the STAAD Analysis Engine (*) which can be used for solving both static and dynamic problems. It is part of the STAAD engine with no special command required to run it. It is automatically activated if a suitable license is available (**), however, this can be turned off and the standard solver used by including the option:SET STAR 0 This command must be included in the header information block at the start of the file and before the first JOINT command block. The engine can operate in two modes, in-core and out-of-core. The in-core solver will be used for models with under 20000 joints and the out-of-core solver for models over 20000 joints. In most situations, the in-core mode will provide the quickest solution, but where there is insufficient memory available, then the engine will use the out-of-core mode. Again, selection of the mode is automatically chosen by the analysis, but can be over-ridden. The full set of overrides for the advanced engine are:SET STAR -3 use in-core solver regardless of size SET STAR 4 use out-of-core solver regardless of size SET STAR 3 default SET STAR 0 use STAAD standard solver Notes:(*) The Advanced Solver is NOT available for use with a Stardyne Analysis. (**) To use this feature requires access to a STAAD Advanced license. If you do not currently have this feature, please contact your account manager. (***) Global Euler Buckling analysis is different between the two solvers. See section AD.20071001.2.3 of this document for the differences.

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