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  1. barnieb

    Shear wall in STAAD

    It all depends whether out of plane shear exists - if it does then you would reasonably expect to take account of it in the design of rebar. So do they ignoreall out of plane forces for this part of the program as well then? because if you had a lateral load then you get the shear component that...
  2. barnieb

    Soil Classification

    Can anyone point me to a Design code or information source that has soil classification values, such as Bulk Modulus etc for a wide variety of soil types. Many Thanks bb
  3. barnieb

    promechanica versus risa

    Promechanica is a high end FEA package which has been specifically designed for Mechanical problems. To do structural stuff with the same ease as other structurally biased software will be almost impossible. Rivals for this software are probably Algor, Ansys, Abaqus etc. For slab problems...
  4. barnieb

    Basic FEA program in Basic

    search the internet for FEAP - it is downloadable code written in Fortran by RL Taylor who shared the authorship of the Finite Element Method with Zienkewicz. As for VB..... I dont think it is the right platform for this especially with the absence of some crucial maths libraries which you will...
  5. barnieb

    STAAD and Xsteel?

    I dont know that this will work to the degree which these software houses expect. A) wont it be hugely expensive as these products arent cheap if purchased separately - (although I dont know who the licensing will be with - presumably Tekla as they seem to be paying RE for the use of STAAD)...

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