Analysisoftruss

Objective:toanalyzethetrussofDepEdschoolbuildingusingStaad

given:200kphwindspeed,9.5mbuildingheight

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procedure:

1.)startstaadandcreateanewproject,thistimeusingtruss,

2.)toimportaCADfileintoStaadbygoingtoFILE>>IMPORT

locatethefile"schooltruss.dxf"intheresourcesfolderfromtheusbdisk

note:allcadfilemustbein"dxf"formattobeimportedinSTAAD

selectnochangethenpress"ok",thenmakesurelengthsarein"meters"andforceunitsin
"kilonewton"thetrussshouldappearinStaadwindow

3.)itispossiblethatstaadmayhaverevertedto"space"analysis,thereforeitisimportanttochange
backto"truss"mode.savetheprojectfirstbygoingtofile>save

afterspaceischangedtotruss,savethefile

4.)declarethematerialstobeusedinthetrussby:

5.)assign"L20204"towebmembersandassign"L20204LD"totopandbottomchordsections.

usecursorinassigningmembers,

6.)createandassignpinsupportsonthe3locations

6.)declareloadcases

7.)assignloadstothetrussasfollows

6.)assignthepositivevaluesontherighttopchordofthetruss,assignthenegativevaluesontheleft
topchord

7.)createandassign"4.95"uniformload(Ylocal)underloadcase"wind2"andassignloadstothetop
chord

8.)analyzethetruss(followsteps1214inpreviousactivity)

***loadstransmittedtocolumns