PRODUCT DATA SHEET

STAAD.Pro
®

Comprehensive Structural Analysis and Design Software

STAAD.Pro is a comprehensive and integrated finite

element analysis and design offering that includes a
state-of-the-art user interface, visualization capabilities,
and international design codes. It is capable of analyzing
any structure exposed to static loading, a dynamic response,
wind, earthquake, and moving loads. STAAD.Pro is the
premier FEM analysis and design tool for any type of project
including towers, culverts, plants, bridges, stadiums, and
marine structures.

Analysis and Design

The standard STAAD.Pro analysis methods, including static elastic, p-delta,
dynamic and seismic analysis routines, provide you with a perfect grounding
in structural and analysis requirements for an array of projects. When more
advanced capabilities are required you can extend to STAAD.Pro Advanced.

STAAD.Pro reduces the resource hours required to properly load your structure by
automating the forces caused by wind, earthquakes, snow, or vehicles. Clear Start Page and new structure wizard allows user configuration and easy
No matter what material you are using or what country you are designing your access into the program.
structure for, STAAD.Pro can easily accommodate your design and loading require-
ments, including U.S., European (including the Eurocodes), Nordic, Indian, and we include online help and dozens of examples to illustrate solutions to
Asian codes. Even special codes such as AASHTO, ASCE 52, IBC, and the commonly raised modeling, analysis, and design issues.
U.S. aluminum code are accommodated at no extra cost.

With an unparalleled quality-assurance program, open architecture for Broad Spectra of Design Codes
customization, and a 25-year track record – including such projects as the Steel, concrete, timber, and aluminum design codes from all around the
MCI Stadium in Washington D.C., Wimbledon Court No.1 in Europe, and the world including a number of historical codes mean you can take STAAD.Pro
tallest transmission tower in Asia – STAAD.Pro is the perfect workhorse to wherever your company works.
for your design firm.
Interoperability and Open Architecture
STAAD.Pro is more than an analysis and design application.
STAAD.Pro will eliminate the countless ISM
STANDARD
From simple importing of CAD models to creating custom
links and developing third-party applications using Open-
resource hours required to properly load your STAAD, it can be the heart of your structural solution.
structure by automating the forces caused When integrated with ProjectWise®, your STAAD.Pro
models can be efficiently managed with the leading project collaboration system.
by wind, earthquakes, snow, or vehicles. By using the ISM integration, models become part of an integrated workflow.

Quality Assurance
Extremely Flexible Modeling Environment STAAD.Pro undergoes the most demanding quality and testing regime.
The power of STAAD.Pro is in an interface that is based on the latest Our procedures follow the requirements of 10CFR Part 50, 10CFR21
programming technology, which means that 80 percent of new users learn to and ASME NQA-1-2000 to approve STAAD.Pro for use on the design of
use STAAD.Pro efficiently in under two hours. Along with our tutorial movies, nuclear installations.
System Requirements STAAD.Pro At-A-Glance
Processor:
Intel® Pentium or AMD processor 2.0 User Interface • Aluminum design
GHz or greater • Graphical capabilities. Models can be created quickly and • Shear wall designs for U.S., Indian, and British codes
accurately using structural grids, tooltips to highlight data,
Operating system: frame generators, and a structure wizard for standard
Post Processing
Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1 or 7 structural frames • The STAAD.Pro interface is configured to suit the model to
32 or 64 bit OS ease access to the required data
• Visualization. From simple wire frames for speed, accuracy,
System memory: and ease of use to fully rendered 3D models for clear mass • Interactive graphics. Linked tables and windows to get direct
1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended. distribution and presentation feedback from one item in related windows
More memory almost always improves • All new advanced IDE style Editor with IntelliSense, • Output file. Simple clear information to verify the analysis
performance, particularly when Database Integration, and context sensitive help • User report. Create high-quality documents
working with larger models. 4 GB or • Meshing capabilities. Triangular or quadrilateral • Contoured stress plots. Using automatic or user-configured
more can help speed up solutions for meshes created from zones within defined models or scales, colors, and limits
very large complex models with large imported from DXF files • Animations. View displacements, stress contours, or mode
numbers of load cases. • Load generators. Seismic UBC, IBC, ASME wind and snow, shapes dynamically
Disk space: Requirements will bridge loading BEAVA Intraoperability
vary depending on the modules you • Customizable interface with VBA capabilities.
• Bentley CONNECT provides unparalleled project
are installing. A typical minimum Create windows and tables to your own specifications.
management to your engineering workflow.
is 500MB free space. SQL query builder
• RAM™ Connection. Joints defined in the model with
Display: Graphics card and monitor Objects the forces calculated from the analysis can be passed
with 1280x1024 resolution, 256 color • Beams. Standard linear, curved and physical beams, into the leading connection design application
display (16-bit high color recommended) compression/tension only, with databases of sections from • Bentley AutoPIPE®. Pass the STAAD.Pro structural steel-
around the world frame into AutoPIPE to correctly account for the pipe
A sound card and speakers are needed
• Plates. 3- or 4-noded 2D plates and surface objects support stiffnesses and import the pipe engineers support
for the tutorial movies and slide shows.
with holes reactions back into the model for an accurate design in
• Solid. Solid 3D bricks from 4- to 8-noded a fraction of the time of traditional methods
• Supports. Foundation and multi-linear springs • STAAD.foundation and STAAD Foundation Advanced.
Find out about Bentley • Loads. Full range of loads for static and dynamic analysis Import the STAAD.Pro support reactions and positions
at: www.bentley.com that can be defined explicitly or calculated using the wide directly to design the structure foundations
range of load generators • RAM™ Concept. Floor slabs can be identified and linked
Contact Bentley to RAM Concept for full RC and PT design and detailing in
1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Analysis a state-of-the-art application
Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 • Elastic. Traditional first-order including iterative • ProStructures and AECOsim Building Designer. Two-way
Global Office Listings
one-way analysis link to support creating models with design and
www.bentley.com/contact • P-Delta. Both large and small P-Delta including construction documents.
stress-stiffening effects • Full concrete design and detail with RC DC directly from the
• Imperfection. Account for imperfections in Building Planner Mode
structural geometry • OpenSTAAD. A complete set of functions that make
• Dynamic. Modal analysis including stress-stiffening eigen- OpenSTAAD an API from which data can be extracted
solution and steady-state options, time history, and response directly into applications such as Microsoft Word or Excel,
spectrums or your own application. You can drive STAAD.Pro
• The standard solver, the staple of STAAD® for over 20 years to create models, run the analysis, and view the result
is now complemented by an advanced solver that can be up with your own interface
to 1,000 times faster • CAD, DXF. Use CAD models as the base wire frame, structural
• Code checking and design grid or outline of a complex deck that needs to be meshed
• Steel Design. Choose from 50 codes from around the world • CIS/2. Exchange data with other steel design packages
• Concrete Design. Select from 40 design codes, either in • Section Wizard. Calculate properties of built-up sections,
batch processing or the interactive Concrete Design Mode drawn freehand, parametrically defined, or imported from a
• Timber. Support four design codes. CAD drawing

STAAD.Pro in action. Pipe work designed in AutoPIPE can be imported and

graphically linked to the structure to import the loading.

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