Structural Software

[Usimo]

Dear All!

What are the average percentage of time of total time for Modelling and Analysing a typical steel structure in any structural software (like Stad Pro or SAP) you use?

Example .....Modelling 50% and analysing 50%

This is just for an information.

thanks

 

[Bagman2524]

STAADPro 2004

Modelling 99.9% Analysis 0.1%

 

[DaveAtkins]

I use RISA-3D. I can input a model, on average, in 5 to 10 minutes (I'm talking a 2D frame here, not an entire building). I will spend about 10 to 20 minutes analyzing the results (I don't trust the program to tell me if a member is okay or not, because there are so many variables to consider). So I would say modelling 33% and analyzing 67%.

DaveAtkins

 

[PEStructural]

I just spent the last 4 weeks modelling a complicated 3D junction structure that has two cylindrical tanks (one inside the other) with hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads. It took me about 2 days to analyze the output.

 

[Bagman2524]

If you include analyzing the output, I would change my STAAD Pro 2004 figures to

Modelling 75%
Computer Analysis 0.1% A
nalyzing the output 24.9%

 

[mrMikee]

Do you guys use the built in code checking and would you consider this part of it modeling or analyzing? I don't do enough of this to be real productive but I do the modeling with a frame program (Multiframe) and do the code checking with a spreadsheet, which I would call analyzing. My time is in the range of 50/50 to 1/3 modeling and 2/3 analyzing depending on how long it takes to get something to work out right.

-Mike