STAAD.

Pro 2007 Industrial

Ductwork Finite Element
Analysis

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 Industrial Ductwork
Sketch of Proposed Ductwork

Purpose of the Finite Element Analysis

is to determine plate stresses and
compare it with allowable stress of 36
ksi

MC6x18 Design Ratio

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 STAAD.Pro’s Advanced Drawing Grid
Irregular grids and radial grids will be
used to create the geometry.

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 STAAD.Pro’s Advanced Drawing
Commands
Advanced Beam copy
and generation
commands such as
translational
repeat is used to
create the frame
work or skeleton
model of the duct
work.

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 STAAD.Pro’s Plate Infill Option
Create plate
elements in seconds
using the skeleton
model using the
Plate Infill
command.

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 STAAD.Pro’s Viewing Options
As FEM models
become more and
more complicated,
STAAD.Pro’s
structure isolation
tools such as View-
>View Selected
Objects Only will
definitely help the
engineers to work on
details as shown
here.

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 STAAD.Pro’s Loading Options
Variety of Plate
Loading options are
available including
pressures applied
with respect to local
plate axis as shown
below for the circular
duct work.

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 STAAD.Pro’s Viewing Options
Plate stresses to
verify if plate size
and stiffener spacing
is adequate to resist
internal pressures
and external
wind/seismic loads.

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 STAAD.Pro’s Viewing Options
Stiffener combined
axial and bending
stresses can be seen
in graphics.
Members can be
designed as per the
AISC 2005 13th
Edition code.

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Thank you

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