Structural WorkSuite

Perform analysis and design for any size or type of structure, with any material, quickly and with confidence

Structural WorkSuite is a bundle of Bentley?s most popular structural applications in a single cost-effective license. This cost-effective bundle of structural analysis applications includes applications like RAM and STAAD. It helps engineers on tight budgets take advantage of comprehensive workflows to take a project from concept through completion.

Because every firm has different needs, there are three flexible STAAD variations:?

STAAD.Pro ? The most basic STAAD option including FEM analysis and physical modeling
STAAD.Pro Advanced?? Adds more advanced and complex analysis
Structural WorkSuite?? The most popular structural applications in a single, cost-effective license

Design using any material

Design steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel structures anywhere in the world using included international design codes.

Save time with automation

Automatically convert your physical model into an analytical model to streamline your workflow.

Improve collaboration and productivity

Streamline multi-discipline team collaboration through broad interoperability with Bentley desktop and cloud and mobile applications like OpenBuildings, AutoPIPE, Revit, and Tekla. Optimize concrete and steel BIM workflows with the full integration of physical members and surfaces. View and edit models from mobile devices.

Integrate steel and concrete designs

Take advantage of advanced concrete design detailing, documentation as well as steel autodrafter features.

User Interface

• Graphical capabilities. Models can be created quickly and accurately using structural grids, tooltips to highlight data, frame generators, and a structure wizard for standard structural frames
• Visualization. From simple wire frames for speed, accuracy, and ease of use to fully rendered 3D models for clear mass distribution and presentation
• All new advanced IDE style Editor with IntelliSense, Database Integration, and context-sensitive help
• Meshing capabilities. Triangular or quadrilateral meshes created from zones within defined models or imported from DXF files
• Load generators. Seismic UBC, IBC, ASME wind and snow, bridge loading BEAVA
• Customizable interface with VBA tools. Create windows and tables to your own specifications. SQL query builder
• STAAD Building Planner. Special modeling environment for building structures. Operations like defining geometry, making changes in the geometric specifications are matters of only few clicks in this workflow.

Objects

• Beams. Standard linear, curved and physical beams, compression/tension only, with databases of sections from around the world
• Plates. 3- or 4-noded 2D plates and surface objects with holes
• Solid. Solid 3D bricks from 4- to 8-noded
• Supports. Foundation and multilinear springs
• Loads. Full range of loads for static and dynamic analysis that can be defined explicitly or calculated using the wide range of load generators

Intraoperability

• RAM Connection. Joints defined in the model with the forces calculated from the analysis can be passed into the leading connection design application
• Bentley AutoPIPE. Pass the STAAD.Pro structural steel frame into AutoPIPE to correctly account for the pipe support stiffnesses and import the pipe engineers support reactions back into the model for an accurate design in a fraction of the time of traditional methods
• STAAD Foundation Advanced. Import the STAAD support reactions and positions directly to design the structure foundations
• RAM Concept. Floor slabs can be identified and linked to RAM Concept for full RC and PT design and detailing in a state-of-the-art application
• ProStructures and OpenBuildings Designer. Two-way link to support creating models with design and construction documents
• OpenSTAAD is an API from which STAAD data can be extracted directly into custom programs or applications such as Microsoft Word or Excel. You can even use OpenSTAAD to drive the creation of STAAD.Pro models, run the analysis, and view the results with your own interface
• CAD, DXF. Use CAD models as the base wire frame, structural grid, or outline of a complex deck that needs to be meshed
• CIS/2. Exchange data with other steel design packages

Analysis

• Elastic. Traditional first order including iterative one-way analysis
• P-Delta. Both large and small P-Delta including stress-stiffening effects
• Imperfection. Account for imperfections in structural geometry
• Dynamic. Modal analysis including stress-stiffening eigen solution and steady-state options, time history, and response spectrums
• Advanced solver, the staple of STAAD for over 20 years is now up to 1,000 times faster
• Section Wizard. Calculate properties of built-up sections, drawn freehand, parametrically defined, or imported from a CAD drawing

Post Processing

• Interactive graphics. Linked tables and windows to get direct feedback from one item in related windows
• Output file. Simple clear information to verify the analysis
• User report. Create high-quality documents
• Contoured stress plots. Using automatic or user-configured scales, colors, and limits
• Animations. View displacements, stress contours, or mode shapes dynamically

Design and Documentation

• Steel Design: Choose from over 50 regional design codes
  • Integrated with the analysis process
  • Integrated steel drawing production using Steel Autodrafter
  • Chinese steel design module available
• Concrete Design
  • Basic Concrete Design: Select from 18 design codes. Quick and integrated with analysis process
  • Advanced Concrete Design. 12 additional regional design codes.
  • Integrated concrete design, detailing, and drawing production (requires STAAD.Pro Advanced)?
  • Timber. Support for design codes such as US, Canada, Eurocode
  • Aluminum design (US)

Design codes

Many design code standards are incorporated into STAAD to make sure that the structural design complies with local regulations. Some of these codes include:

• ASCE 7
• IBC
• IS1893
• IS456
• IS13920
• AISC 360
• ACI 318
• AISI
• AS4100
• EN 1992-1-1 (Eurocode 2)
• EN 1993-1-1 (Eurocode 3)
• IS800
• IS801
• NZS3404

Processor

Intel Pentium or AMD processor 2.0 GHz or greater

Operating System

Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1 or 7 32 or 64 bit OS

Memory

1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended. Additional memory potentially improves performance, particularly when working with larger models. 4 GB or more can help speed up solutions for very large complex models with large numbers of load cases.

Disk Space

Requirements will vary depending on the modules you are installing. A typical minimum is 500 MB free space.

Display

Graphics card and monitor with 1280?1024 resolution, 256 color display (16-bit high color recommended.) A sound card and speakers are needed for the tutorial movies and slide shows.