STAAD Foundation Advanced
Comprehensive Foundation Design Software
Get efficient foundation design and documentation using plant-specific design tools, multiple design codes with U.S. and metric bar sizes, design optimization, and automatic drawing generation. STAAD Foundation Advanced provides you with a streamlined workflow through its integration with STAAD.Pro or as a stand-alone application. You can design virtually any type of foundation, from basic to the most complex.
- Easily model complex or simple footings, such as plant foundations supporting vertical vessels, horizontal vessels, tanks and other footings
- Quickly model common foundations such as isolated, combined, strip, pile caps, and many more
- Simplify challenging scenarios such as vibrating machine foundation, lateral analysis of piers, or mat design using FEA
- Efficiently use your structural model with the foundation model through integration with STAAD.Pro, including automatically synced changes in both models
Produktinformationen
Improves Accuracy
The software integrates all common footing designs including isolated footings, combined footings, pile-cap arrangement and design, octagonal footings, mat foundations, drilled pier foundations, and guyed tower foundations.
Plant foundation mode contains vertical vessel, horizontal vessel foundations with different shapes, and configurations along with annular ring tank foundation and laterally loaded drilled pier analysis. These accurate design capabilities are powered with wizard based input, automatic load (wind and seismic) generation and configurable load combination tools. A wizard-based foundation solution mode called “Foundation Toolkit” is available for spread footing, combined footing, pile cap, drilled pier axial analysis, and guyed tower foundations.
Optimizes Foundation Design
Currently, STAAD Foundation Advanced supports seven concrete codes: ACI-2005, BS 8110, IS-456-2000, AS 3600-2004, CSA 23.3-04, GB50007-2002 and EN 1992-1-1-2004. Load generation tools include wind and seismic load as well as automatic and user-defined load combinations generation. PIP STC 01015 code is implemented for equipment foundation load generation. The program performs all necessary design checks for most optimized foundation design. Alternatively, it provides tools to check existing foundations. Its powerful 3D graphics enable engineers to quickly identify and investigate displaced shapes, stress contour, soil pressure, and reinforcement layout.
Increases Productivity
STAAD Foundation Advanced is seamlessly integrated with STAAD.Pro (a leading product in structural analysis and design). Any analyzed STAAD.Pro file can be imported into or exported to STAAD Foundation Advanced, while automatically bringing in all column positions (and/or plates), attached column dimensional properties, support reactions, and loads. Any changes made to the column positions or loads can be re-imported to further evaluate the substructure. STAAD Foundation Advanced can import and export input data from spreadsheets and can export detailed output.
Finite Element Analysis (FEM)
STAAD Foundation Advanced takes full advantage of 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEM) and employs an innovative technique to optimize reinforcement requirements. The program automatically detects uplift and redistributes the force.
No matter how complex the foundation is, STAAD Foundation Advanced can design it with its object-based modeling environment via the mat foundation module. Whether it is rectangular, complex polygonal, circular or includes openings, STAAD Foundation Advanced tools can model, analyze, design and produce drawings. The sophisticated mesh generation automatically handles holes (cut-outs) as well as inner regions with different thicknesses or soil property. Physical loading objects can be as diversified as circular load, quadrilateral load, line load, and point load on space.
Reduces Redesign Time
STAAD Foundation Advanced generates detailed drawings that include plan, elevation and sectional views with rebar marks. Schedule drawing gives a summary table for design results. GA (general arrangement) drawing includes all the footings designed in the project to scale with grid lines and grid marks that help to identify interference. Drawings can be exported to DXF or DWG formats to produce site drawings. The most popular feature is Calculation Sheet, which shows detailed output with relevant code clauses and equations.
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
Output
- 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
Analysis and Design
- 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
Design Codes
- United States – ACI 318-2005
- United Kingdom – BS 8110
- India – IS 456-2000
- Australia – AS 3600-2004
- Canada – CSA A 23.3-04
- Chinese – GB50007-2002
- Euro – EN 1992-1-1-2004
Features Specific for Plant Foundations
- 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
Foundation Toolkit Features
- 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
Technical Support
Our support staff is available to assist you with advice and assistance. You can reach us by phone and email. If you need personal assistance, you can also schedule a callback.
Online Training
Benefit from free online presentations, problem-solving support, and high-quality, effective on-site training that will help you get your project off to a quick start or increase your internal quality and efficiency.
Engineering Services
Together with our internationally operating partner, MF Engineering & Consulting, we consistently develop our expertise and find the right solution for your challenges.