Design Any Type of Foundation - From Basic to Complex
What is STAAD Foundation Advanced?
STAAD Foundation Advanced is a comprehensive structural foundation design and analysis application that includes specialized features for foundations of many types. You can perform isolated, combined, pile cap, and mat foundations, or more complex foundations, including horizontal vessel foundations and tank annular ringwalls. The application also provides lateral analysis of pile/drilled piers and vibrational analysis for machine foundations.
Analyze and Design
International Standards
Design a wide variety of foundations, from simple spread footings to complicated mats and specialized machinery pads, with the extensive support of international standards.
Loads And Load Combinations
Apply wind and seismic loads using built-in load generators. Calculate loading parameters automatically. Combine lateral load cases with gravity and other types of loads using load combination generators.
Machine Vibration And Settlement
Analyze machine block foundations for dynamic loading. Leverage wizard-based input for fast finite element analysis (FEA) solids model creation, various loading, and soil spring options.
Detail and Document
Reinforced Concrete Drawings
STAAD Foundation Advanced generates drawings for plan, elevation, and sectional views with rebar marks. General arrangement drawings include all the footings designed in the project, with grid lines and grid marks that help identify interference. Drawings can be exported to DXF or DWG formats and can directly be opened in MicroStation, if installed.
Generate Structural Design Documentation
Engineers can produce customized reports – summaries and detailed calculation sheets – for foundation types such as isolated, combined, pile caps, and mat foundations. They can also choose to embed relevant pictures or screenshots at any location of the report.
STAAD Foundation Advanced
*Prices vary per region. For more options, see licensing and subscriptions section.
User Quote
STAAD revolutionized the structural design process years ago, and even today, many years and versions later, it is still the most user-friendly solution and preferred by most designers.
Featured User Stories
WSP
50-story Tower over Historic Tunnels
By using PLAXIS and RAM Concept’s analysis capabilities, the team delivered the owner’s vision.
VYOM
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The team used STAAD to help create a cost-efficient, optimized design that is set to withstand structural tensions.
WSP/McGee
Complex Basement Design on Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Leveraging RAM and PLAXIS provided an innovative structural solution, saving 25% in design time.
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FAQs
STAAD Foundation Advanced is a structural foundation design and analysis software with the objective of helping to build resilient and sustainable foundation structures. One can perform the analysis and design of isolated, combined, pile cap and mat foundations. Mat foundation can be with or without piles. You can produce customized advanced calculation reports with sketches, picture and screenshots, graphs, and formulae with code references, where applicable along with CAD exportable details, schedule, and general arrangement (GA) drawings. Certain functionalities from STAAD Foundation Advanced software can be accessed with a STAAD.Pro license.. But to experience the full functionality that STAAD Foundation Advanced provides, such as the finite element analysis capabilities, one will need to buy a license of Structural WorkSuite or STAAD Foundation Advanced.
STAAD Foundation Advanced is a popular structural analysis application known for advanced analysis and design of foundations for builings and general framed structures. It is integrated with STAAD.Pro, the most popular software for general purpose structural analysis and design.
The price of STAAD Foundation Advanced varies per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Bentley’s eStore. When you purchase through the eStore you get a Virtuoso Subscription which means you get both the software AND the training, expert services, and custom mentoring you need to get started quickly.
Processor
Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon
Operating System
Windows 7, 8, 10
Memory
500 GB recommended
Disk Space
300 MB free space. (2 GM recommended)
Display
OpenGL 3D graphics supporting
Minimum Resolution
1280×1024
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