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 PORTAL FRAME - PLANE STRUCTURE

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ENG 7704
H 2 3
Design of Steel Structures

Analysis & Design of a Portal Frame using STAAD 4.5

m

Tamer Sabrah
Ph.D Candidate of Civil Engineering 1 fixed 4 hinged

6.0 m
Uniform Service Level Load, w
Dead Load = 1.50 kN/m’
Session 2
2 - 2007
Live Load = 2.50 kN/m’
Concentrated Service Level Wind Load,
1 H  10.0 kN acting towards the right at Joint 2 2

Main Steps of Modeling

For a new file, select the
Entering job information. type of structure you want
to solve. Here select truss
Building model geometry.
type.
Defining member properties, sections.
Assigning loads (load cases,
combinations..) Select from here the units,

Defining pre-analysis print out, analysis that we will deal with.

type, and post-analysis printout. Assume that we have m,

kN.
Defining design requirements.

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The STAAD Graphical Environment will be invoked and the following screen
will appear:

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 2. BUILDING MODEL (STRUCTURE) GEOMETRY
1. ENTERING JOB INFORMATION.
How to Define the Frame Geometry?

You MUST put a job name here 1. Create nodes at certain coordinates and then connect

in between these nodes.

2. Use Construction lines

3. Draw it AutoCAD and Import as “.dxf ” file.

4. Using the Staad editor

5. Combination of all the above.

To the more
complicated

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After clicking Snap Node/Beam, use

the mouse and connect between
nodes created at the intersections of
construction lines.

REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR WORK

FREQUENTLY

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3. DEFINING MEMBER PROPERTIES, SECTIONS. Property:

Property:
In which we can define or choose sections properties Assume Preliminary Sections:
of the members of the truss.
Using the Canadian steel tables.
Spec.:
The frame girder is section
In which we can define or choose members’ specifications.
W 310 X 39
Support:
In which we can define the supports properties (restraints). The columns are

Load: W 410 X 39
In which we can define the applied loads, load cases,
load combinations.

Material
In which we can define the material properties.
(ex. E, density, etc.)
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Assigning the sections created to the model Supports

By clicking on the support icon

the shown window will appear.
We have to create new kinds of
supports.

We have two kinds of supports

1. Fixed Support.
2. Hinged Support.

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Assigning Supports at nodes

How to see the frame full sections?

Use the mouse and click on the nodes according to its support type as shown below

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You may change the member orientation by Right Click on the member, 4. DEFINING LOADS
Select Properties
Change in the Geometry Angle Beta

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 For example: Live Load Case can be Load Case No. 2, and Wind Load is the load case No. 3
Dead Load Case can be Load Case No. 1

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We will create all load combinations needed at this stage, for

example:
1.25 D.L. + 1.5 L.L + 1.0 W.L.
In Dead Loads create the self weight definition

Self weight is defined in the

negative - Y direction

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For the D.L. and L.L. cases:

Create the Uniform Loads on the frame as specified before. Dead Load Uniform load = - 1.5 kN/m

Make sure of the directions of forces according to the global coordinates.

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