STAAD Foundation Advanced Help

Other Miscellaneous Enhancements

The following enchantments have also been added in STAAD Foundation Advanced v7.

  • Reinforcement spacing for pile caps
  • Indian pedestal design modifications: pedestal self weight, minimum area of steel required, tension only case
  • Updated spreadsheet export and import now supports:
    • Code edition for US ACI 318 code
    • Self weight factor
    • Soil bearing factor
    • Mat foundation loads
  • Top reinforcement calculation requirement notification in calculation sheet for isolated footing in the case of resultant negative pressure for the net pressure case
  • Isolated footing calculation updates:
    • Updated depth calculation based on footing diameter
    • Updated shear calculation based on revised footing thickness from flexure (for US code)
    • Top reinforcement calculation update
  • Mat foundations meshing has been updated
  • ASCE 7-10 load combinations added
  • Sequential load generation for load combinations