Index

Add Beam between Mid-Points 3-3

Add Beam by Perpendicular Intersection 3-3
Add Beam from Point to Point 3-2
Add Curved Beam 3-4
Analysis/Print tab 1-16
Analyze menu 1-12
Renumbering Nodes, Members,
and Elements 3-26
Animation tab 1-17, 7-18
Arbitrary section 4-8
Area loads 6-10
Arrival Time 6-33
Assigning Materials to the Structure 4-4
Assign To Edit List 4-4
Assign To Selected Beams 4-4
Assign To View 4-4

Editing Material Properties 4-4

EigenValue Extraction method 6-51
Element Forces/Stresses 7-10
Element Incidences 5-15
Element Information 7-3

General tab 1-16

Generate composite models 33
Generate Plate Mesh 3-10
Generate solid block models 32
Generate Surface Meshing 3-8
Geometry menu 1-10
Geometry tab 1-15

Backup Manager 1-4

Beam tab 1-17
Beta Angle 4-15
Building Design Pressure 6-36

C
Cable 5-9
CHANGE command 5-10
Circular Repeat tool 3-16
Command menu 1-3
Compression members 5-10
Concentrated Force 6-6
Concentrated Moment 6-6
Configuration 1-3
Create a new material 2-17
Create a new project 31
Create a plate 30
Create members 24
Create new grids 28
Create surface/plates models 2-3
Create the frame models 3-7
Create the solid 3-7
Create truss models 3-11

D
Damping 6-33
Data Area 1-17

F
Fire proofing 5-11
Fixed But 5-14
Fixed end loads 6-8
Fixed supports 5-14
Floor loads 6-10
Floor Weights 6-25
Frequency 6-51

H
Harmonic Function 6-31
Help menu 1-13
Help Topics 1-4
Hydrostatic loads 6-7

I
Ignore Stiffness 5-12
Imperfection 5-11
Import CAD Models 1-21
Inactive members 5-10
Inclined 5-16

J
Joint Coordinates 2-3

L
License Configuration 1-4
Linear Grid 2-18
Linear varying loads 6-6

Exploring Bentley STAAD.Pro

Main Window 1-17

Master/Slave specification 5-2
Material Constants 4-2
Member Incidences 2-7
Member Load 6-5
Members 3-26
Member Specification 5-5
Menu Bar 1-7
Merge Model with STAAD.Pro Model 28
Merge Selected Members option 3-25
Mirror tool 3-22
Modeling tab 1-14
Move tool 5-15

Quadrilateral plates 3-8

N
Name and Logo 7-22
New dialog box 1-4
Nodal Load 6-4
Node Specification 5-2
Node tab 1-16

O
Offset 5-7

P
PDelta Analysis 7-5
Perform Buckling Analysis 7-8
Perform Cable Analysis 7-5
Perform Direct Analysis 7-7
Perform Imperfection Analysis 7-7
Performing analysis 7-4
Perform Pushover Analysis 7-8
Pinned supports 5-14
Plane Stress specification 5-12
Plate Loads 6-13
Plate specification 5-11
Plate/Surface Thickness 4-14
Post analysis print 7-8
Post Processing tab 1-16
Post stress load 6-8
Pre analysis print 7-2
Pre stress load 6-8
Print Analysis Results 7-10
Print Cg 7-10
Print Force Envelope 7-10
Print Joint Displacement 7-8
Print Member Forces 7-9
Print Member Stresses 7-10
Print Mode Shapes 7-10
Print Story Drift 7-9
Print Support Reactions 7-9
Prismatic Section 4-7
Problem Statistics 7-3
Project Tasks 1-3
ProjectWise 5-9

R
Radial Grid 2-19
Rayleigh Frequency method 6-51
Recent Files 1-4
Reference Load 6-24
Release 5-6
Renumbering Nodes 3-26
Repeat 2-4
Repeat All 2-4
Repeat Load 6-49
Reports 7-19
Report tab 1-17
Response Spectra 6-43

S
Save As 1-19
Section Displacement 7-10
Section Properties 4-7
Seismic Load 6-21
Selfweight 6-3
Side Toolbar 1-14
Snap Node/Beam 1-17
Snow Load 6-41
Solid Information 7-4
Solid Load 6-20
Splitting and Breaking Beams at
Selected Nodes 3-27
STAAD Output Viewer window 7-11
Structure Wizard 6-18
Support Information 7-3

T
Tapered Sections 4-10
Temperature Load 6-21
Tension/Compression Only Springs 5-17
Tension members 5-10
Time History Load 6-29
Time Step 6-32
Tools menu 3-8
Trapezoidal loads 6-7

U
Uniform Force 6-5
Uniform Moment 6-5
Use Cursor To Assign 4-4

V
VBA Macro Models 34
Vehicle Definitions 6-51

W
Wind Load 6-34
Window menu 1-13