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venkatesh · General Sponsor Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 218

could anybody tell me when the plates and surfaces used in staad model and for shear wall modelling which one we have opt for? plate ot surfaces?

rahul.leslie · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject:

When you use plates as shear walls, you'll have to mesh it. But that would break up the beams and columns on it's periphery to small bits. And STAAD would then design each of those bits separately -- bit by bit -- rendering the results useless. This is where the surface scores over plates. The surface element gets meshed, while the beams and columns in it's periphery remain intact.

arunkashikar · General Sponsor Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 91

This is something new for me. Can you through some more light on the ‘surface elements’. Do they belong to STAAD element library? And do you mean, even if they are monolithic with columns you need not mesh columns, even though elements are meshed?
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Subject: [ECONF] Re: plates ande surfaces

When you use plates as shear walls, you'll have to mesh it. But that would break up the beams and columns on it's periphery to small bits. And STAAD would then design each of those bits separately -- bit by bit -- rendering the results useless. This is where the surface scores over plates. The surface element gets meshed, while the beams and columns in it's periphery remain intact.

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u.mukesh · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:38 am Post subject: plates ande surfaces

Hello
ya I am also curious to know that how the compatibility of displacements of beams and columns and the surface element is ensured unless they are not meshed?

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Mukesh Upadhyay

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:42 AM, arunkashikar <forum@sefindia.org (forum@sefindia.org)> wrote:

M.ANBARASU · SEFI Member Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 3

dear friend
i have used the plate as well as surface elemt for the same problem.
but the plate results are lower than surface why?
with regards
m.anbarasu
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2009 rahul.leslie wrote :

Kedar · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject:

Hello Anabarasu

Can you please the problem elaborate the problem
to all of us, you solved viz.

1.The apect ratio of elements
2.The boundary conditions.
3.The connection between plane and beam
elements.
4.Which results you got different,deflection,shear or moment
forces?
5.Loading.
6.Software used.

regards
Kedar

rahul.leslie · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject:

As far as I can understand, like ETABS here STAAD also uses a dual model approach -- one for the display, and another for the analysis engine. So the former model will have surfaces meshed, but it's edge columns and beams unmeshed, while the latter will have the surface's edge columns and beams meshed

rahul.leslie · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject:

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