ETABS or STAAD Pro?
Following are the detailed technical information for both ETABS and STAAD Pro:
ETABS:
ETABS is Extended Three Dimensional Analysis of Building System, widely used for multistory building analysis and design.FEATURES of ETABS:
- Multistory RCC building.
- Staggered truss building.
- Building with steel, concrete, composite or joint floor framing.
- P-delta analysis with static or dynamic analysis.
- Non linear static pushover.
- Building with base isolators and dampers.
In ETABS, the report generator features include an indexed table of contents, model definition information and analysis and design result in tabulated format. Reports are viewable within ETABS with live document navigation connected to the model explorer and directly exportable to MS Word.
STAAD Pro:
STAAD Pro is a structural analysis and design computer program. We can work fairly well with steel, concrete, timber, aluminum and cold- formed steel projects in STAAD Pro.
FEATURES OF STAAD Pro:
- Automatically transform your physical model into an analytical model to modernize your workflow.
- Design for high-seismic provinces or everybody conditioned, using finite element analysis.
- STAAD Pro mostly used to execute the structural elements like trusses, columns, beams, walls, slabs on the basis of loads, moments, shear forces, torsional effects, bending moments, deflection etc.
- STAAD Pro is used for 3D model generation, analysis and multi-material design.
- The commercial version of STAAD Prosupports several steel, concrete and timber design codes.
ETABS OR STAAD PRO
CONCLUSION:
- ETABS is good over STAAD Pro if you are designing a reinforced concrete structure. The user interface is easy and the analysis values are better and economical compare to STAAD Pro.
- STAAD Pro is good over ETABS for the analysis of steel structure frames as the codes and user interface is better integrated in STAAD Pro.
- Students should learn both ETABS and STAAD Pro to understand different aspect of structural engineering
This Article by:
Er. Kaustubh Kathoke
Civil Engineer
kathokekaustubh@gmail.com
