STAAD Foundation Advanced

What software is used for structural foundation analysis?

STAAD Foundation Advanced is a popular structural analysis application known for advanced analysis on a wide range of foundation types and is interoperable with other various applications.

How much does STAAD Foundation Advanced cost?

A practitioner license of STAAD Foundation Advanced costs $2,016 USD at Virtuosity.com. Prices vary per region. To see the price in your region, select your region at the bottom of the page. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Virtuosity, Bentley's eCommerce store. When you purchase through Virtuosity you get a Virtuoso Subscription which means you get both the software AND the training, expert services, and custom mentoring you need to get started quickly.

Expert services and tailored training, when and where you need it.

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General Footings 

• Intuitive graphical user interface; the workflow is categorized and arranged to flow from top to bottom
• Foundation project environment that includes isolated, combined, strap, pile cap, octagonal footing, mat, and rotating/reciprocating machine foundations; it connects all the modules through a global layer
• Tabbed view, navigator tree ribbon control and custom skin style
• Spreadsheet import/export integration with detailed output
• Physical mat foundation modeling environment that saves time and reduces errors by considering openings, control regions, physical beam, and column lines; provides an option for both triangular and quadrilateral plates
• Physical loading—like point load on space, irregular quadrilateral load, circular load, or line load that allows users to simulate any physical loading such as tank and wall loading
• Wizard-based simplified input for rotating/reciprocating machine foundation that creates solid elements with dynamic 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 such as 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
• To-the-scale dynamic sketches in calculation sheet
• GA drawing with grid marks to help identify interferences
• Foundation grouping for production drawing and sample calculation
• Bending moment and shear force graphs for combined footing embedded in calculation sheet for critical load case
• Printable bending moment and shear force graphs for combined footing for all load cases
• 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 static analysis for mat foundation and dynamic analysis for machine foundation powered by reliable STAAD analysis engine
• Support for an unlimited number of load cases and load combinations
• User-defined reinforcing zones and blocks for optimal reinforcement distribution
• Neglects design moments below columns for mat foundation
• Slab design along any cut line to simulate manual mat design technique
• Pedestal design
• Analysis for partial uplift caused by biaxial bending for all footing types

Design Codes

• United States
  • ACI 318-2005
  • ACI 318-2008
  • ACI 318-2011
• 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

Specific Features 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 such as ASCE-7 and PIP STC 01015
• Generates wind load and zip-code-based seismic load automatically based on ASCE 7, IS 875, IS 1893
• 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 318-05

Processor 
Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 

Operating System 
Windows 7, 8, 10
 
Memory 
500 GB recommended
 
Disk Space 
300 MB free space.   (2 GM recommended)

Display 
OpenGL 3D graphics supporting

Minimum Resolution
1280x1024