STAAD Foundation Advanced - STAAD Foundation Advanced At-A-Glance

General Footings

Intuitive user-friendly graphical user interface; the workflow is categorized and arranged to flow from top to bottom
Complete foundation project environment that includes isolated, combined, strap, pile cap, octagonal footing, and mat foundations; it connects all the modules through a global layer
Tabbed view, navigator tree Ribbon control and custom skin style
Spreadsheet integration with detailed output
Physical mat foundation modeling environment that saves time and reduces errors by considering holes, control regions, physical beam and column lines; provides an option for both triangular and quadrilateral plates
Physical loading—like point load on space, quadrilateral load, circular load, or line load that allows user to simulate any physical loading like tank and wall loading
Seamlessly integrates with STAAD.Pro to import/export loadings, reactions, column positions; users can import any set of analyzed plates to design; tracks changes made in STAAD.Pro model and can merge the changes with STAAD Foundation file
Powerful OpenGL-based graphics that help visualize output like displacements, stress on displaced shape, combined beam stress, and entities like plates and beams in 3D for a realistic rendered view
Automatic pile arrangement

DXF export of Detailed and GA drawing
Detailed structural drawing with customizable drawing options and labels
Base pressure and plate stress color contours
Step-by-step detailed calculation sheet with code clauses and equations to verify output
GA drawing with grid marks to help identify interferences
Foundation grouping for production drawing and sample calculation
Printable bending moment and shear force graphs for combined footing
Printable capacity graphs and analysis diagrams for laterally loaded drilled pier

Support for both flexible and rigid methods. Optimize footing dimensions
Sophisticated FEM analysis format foundation powered by reliable STAAD analysis engine
Support for unlimited number of load cases and load combinations
User-defined reinforcing zones and blocks for optimal reinforcement distribution
Slab design along any cut line to simulate manual mat design technique
Pedestal design
Proper handling of biaxial moment for all footing types using finite difference approach

Specific modules for the plant industry such as vertical vessel foundation, heat exchanger foundation, annular ring tank foundation and laterally loaded drilled pier analysis
Generates load combination automatically based on several country codes like ASCE-7 and PIP STC 01015
Generates wind load and zip-code-based seismic load automatically based on ASCE 7, IS 875, IS1893
Creates different configurations of vessel foundations

Time-saving wizard-based input for isolated footings, combined footings, pile cap arrangement and design
Drilled axial pier module supporting API and FHWA 1999 and alternative Vesic method
Guyed tower foundation module based on ACI 318