Filter
Top Products
Section 5
5-181
5.31.2 Definitions for Static Force Procedures
for Seismic Analysis
STAAD offers facilities for determining the lateral loads acting on
structures due to seismic forces, using the rules available in
several national codes and widely accepted publications. The codes
and publications allow for so called equivalent static force
methods to be used in place of more complex methods like
response spectrum and time history analysis. Among the several
such codes supported by STAAD are UBC, IBC, IS 1893, AIJ, etc.
See Sections
1.17.2 and
5.32.12
Once the lateral loads are generated, the program can then analyze
the structure for those loads using the applicable rules explained in
the code documents.