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Section 5
5-7
One restriction is that a semicolon can not separate
consecutive commands. They must appear on separate lines.
Example
MEMBER INCIDENCES
1 1 2; 2 2 3; 3 3 4
etc.
Possible Error:
PRINT FORCES; PRINT STRESSES
In the above case, only the PRINT FORCES command is
processed and the PRINT STRESSES command is ignored.
f) Listing Data: In some STAAD command descriptions, the
word "list" is used to identify a list of joints,
members/elements or loading cases. The format of a list can be
defined as follows:
*
⎧i
1
i
2
i
3
....... ⎫
list =
⎨i
1
TO i (
2
BY i ) ⎬
3
⎩
X or Y or Z
⎭
TO means all integers from the first (i
1
) to the second (i
2
)
inclusive. BY means that the numbers are incremented by an
amount equal to the third data item (i
3
). If BY i
3
is omitted,
the increment will be set to one. Sometimes the list may be too
long to fit on one line, in which case the list may be continued
to the next line by providing a hyphen preceded by a blank.
Also, only a list may be continued and not any other type of
data.
Instead of a numerical list, a single group-name may be
entered if that group was previously defined.
Instead of a numerical list, the specification X ( or Y or Z)
may be used. This specification will include all MEMBERs