FAQ for midas Civil
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Civil Tutorial Manual - Nonlinear Time History
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 time history analysis, midas civil, tutorial, manual, seismic analysis, seismic isolator, nonlinear time history
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Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Force Tuning
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable stayed, cable pretension, cable force tuning, cable bridge, cable stayed bridge
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Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Bridge Applications
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable stayed, cables, cable pretension, cable force tuning, cable bridge, cable stayed bridge
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Civil Tutorial Manual - PSC Design (AASHT-LRFD 12)
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 psc, psc design, aashto lrfd, aashto, tutorial, manual
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[VIEW] Various display options
Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 thickness, display option, element color, midas civil
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[VIEW] Why plate thickness is not visible in the model while viewing solid view?
Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 civil, display option, plate thickness
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[STRUCTURE] How is the varying longitudinal stiffness of ballast/concrete bed considered for rail track analysis?
Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 civil, rail track analysis, multi linear elastic link, bed
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[NODE/ELEMENT] What are Wood Armer moments? How to view ?
Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 civil, sub domain, wood armer moment, plate force
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[NODE/ELEMENT] How is a truss element and a cable element considered ?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, truss element, cable element
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[PROPERTIES] How do you define a material property that is not in midas Civil database?
Updated: Friday, April 19, 2019 material properties, civil, user defined
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[PROPERTIES] How to use the material properties
defined in one model file in any other model file, without defining it again?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil
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[PROPERTIES] How to Use Section Stiffness Scale Factors ?
Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 stiffness, section manager, section stiffness scale factors
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[PROPERTIES] How to reduce the section capacity to model a cracked section approximately?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, stiffness, scale factor, cracked section
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[PROPERTIES] How to make a taper from composite T section to composite I?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, tapered section, composite section
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[PROPERTIES] How to generate uniform tapering irrespective of the number of segments?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 tapered section, midas civil
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[PROPERTIES] How to use Section for Resultant Forces
Updated: Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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[BOUNDARY] Reference for soil theory (Integral Bridge Spring Support)
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 gen, civil, boundary condition, spring support, integral bridge
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[BOUNDARY] Soil Structure Interaction
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, boundary condition, soil spring supports, soil structure interaction
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[BOUNDARY] How to model bearings? How to rotate bearings in case of curved bridge?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 curved bridge, civil, bearing, beta angle
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[BOUNDARY] How to input surface spring coefficient for underground structure?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, boundary conditions, surface spring supports
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[BOUNDARY] How to provide support at base of a curved bridge deck?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 curved bridge, civil, support, node local axis
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[BOUNDARY] What is the difference between rigid link and rigid type elastic link ?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, boundary conditions, elastic link, rigid link
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[LOAD] Horizontal Moving/Live Load (AASHTO - Centrifugal forces)
Updated: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 moving load, civil, centrifugal, horizontal
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[LOAD] How to Add Transverse Moving Load
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, transverse moving load
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[LOAD] What is the difference between lane element and cross beam method for vehicular load distribution? When should each be used?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, vehicular load distribution
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[LOAD] Braking Load Application
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, braking load, aashto
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[LOAD] How to define moving load for curved bridge? 2 point method is not working. Error is displayed that no element is on the defined lane.
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, curved bridge, civil, traffic lane, 2 points
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[LOAD] How to copy tendon profile of one girder to all other girders?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 tendon, civil, tendon profile
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[LOAD] How to input temperature gradient load for a general or PSC section?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, temperature gradient, psc section
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[LOAD] How to get concurrent reactions due to moving load?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, concurrent reaction, civil
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[LOAD] What does the error ‘PSC/Composite type of beam section temperature cannot be applied to section of the element’, imply?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, beam section temperature
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[ANALYSIS] How to view results of a particular load case separately in construction stages?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, civil
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[ANALYSIS] Why is the model showing reactions at all the nodes, though support has not been provided?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, boundary condition, reaction
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[ANALYSIS] Why are the stresses not being displayed for moving load cases in the results?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, stress calculation
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[ANALYSIS] How does the software consider beam property changes with pre-stressing tendon?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, tendon, civil, beam section property
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[ANALYSIS] Cable element is automatically transformed to equivalent truss element for linear analysis. What does this message imply?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, truss element, cable element
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[ANALYSIS] What is the basis of P-∆ analysis in midas Civil? secondary moment from P-∆ analysis matches with classical method calculation using actual stress rather failure stress. why?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, p-delta
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[ANALYSIS] Warnings displayed during analysis that certain load cases have not converged. How to converge all the load cases?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, analysis, convergence tolerance, number of iteration
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[ANALYSIS] How to define more modes of vibration? Only a single mode is shown on performing response spectrum analysis.
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, response spectrum analysis, eigenvalue
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[ANALYSIS] Why are certain supports/links, though defined in the model are not applied while performing analysis?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, civil, support, link
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[ANALYSIS] What kind of boundary conditions & elements are available in response spectrum, and time history analysis?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, response spectrum analysis, element, boundary conditions, time history analysis
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[RESULTS] Comparison of Local Axis and Global Axis
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, local axis, global axis, nodal masses
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[RESULTS] How to formulate load combinations for construction stage results?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, load combination, civil
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[RESULTS] Displacement of the structure looks unrealistic. How can that be changed?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, displacement
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[RESULTS] How to view the result table for construction stages?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, civil
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[RESULTS] How to obtain cross sectional stresses for line element?
Updated: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 civil, beam detail analysis, cross sectional stress
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[RESULTS] Why are the pre-stress losses given by midas Civil not matching with the manual calculations?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, tendon profile, tendon loss, tendon property, pre-stress, time dependent material, sequential prestressing
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[RESULTS] Why is dead load results of last construction stage not matching with dead load results in post CS?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, civil
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[RESULTS] How to obtain vehicle position causing Max./Min. force or moment on an element?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, moving tracer
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[RESULTS] How to verify for the uplift due to moving load and how to obtain the corresponding vehicle positioning?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, uplift
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[RESULTS] Why is there a Link while elements activated in different construction stage are connected, when graphically viewing the results?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, link, construc
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[RESULTS] The deformations of master and slave nodes of a rigid link are not exactly same. Why?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, rigid link, deformation
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[RESULTS] Why is the pre-stress elastic deformation loss sometimes positive?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 elastic deformation, civil, tendon loss
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[PSC] How to view the ultimate moment capacity of PSC girder along with the design moment?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, psc design
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[DESIGN] Difference between Reinforcement Inputs and Design for PT Bent Caps and RC Bent Caps
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, section properties, section manager, design
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[TOOLS] How to create a composite PSC / RCC Section with an unsymmetrical slab?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, spc, composite psc
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[TOOLS] How to import PSC cable profile from AutoCAD drawing?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 autocad, civil, tendon profile, tendon profile generator, mct command shell
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[TOOLS] How to import a section from an AutoCAD *.dxf file?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 autocad, civil, spc
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Error Message "Can't find .dll file"
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, error message
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Rail Bridge Examples and Training Materials
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, rail track analysis
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How do I troubleshoot Singular Error (Degree of Freedom Error)?
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 error, civil, message, singular
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How to generate input & output data _ midas Civil comparison with other design tools.
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, input, output, dynamic report
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MIDAS Civil 2016 FAQ
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018
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Cannot delete or modify a static load case. Error Message "The load combination name = "..." contains errors."
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 error, load combination, civil, message
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Virtual Sections for Skewed Plates
Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 skewed, section offset, section for resultant forces, virtual beam
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Civil - Segmental Bridge (Free Cantilever Method)
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 moving load, civil, time dependent material, segmental bridge, fcm, balanced cantilever, aashto lrfd
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Civil - Cable Stayed Bridges
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 construction stage, cable stayed, cables, pretension, cable pretension, pylons, dynamic analysis
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