FAQ for midas Civil

• MIDAS Civil wont use CUDA despite enabled on graphics card new Updated
  Updated: Monday, October 14, 2019
• Modeling a flared girder geometry new Updated
  Updated: Monday, October 7, 2019 flared girder, tapered section group
• Civil Tutorial Manual - Nonlinear Time History
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 manual, midas civil, nonlinear time history, seismic analysis, seismic isolator, time history analysis, tutorial
• Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Force Tuning
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable bridge, cable force tuning, cable pretension, cable stayed, cable stayed bridge
• Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Bridge Applications
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable bridge, cable force tuning, cable pretension, cable stayed, cable stayed bridge, cables
• Civil Tutorial Manual - PSC Design (AASHT-LRFD 12)
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 aashto, aashto lrfd, manual, psc, psc design, tutorial
• [VIEW]     Various display options
  Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 display option, element color, midas civil, thickness
• [VIEW]      Why plate thickness is not visible in the model while viewing solid view?
  Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 civil, display option, plate thickness
• [STRUCTURE]     How is the varying longitudinal stiffness of ballast/concrete bed considered for rail track analysis?
  Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 bed, civil, multi linear elastic link, rail track analysis
• [NODE/ELEMENT]     What are Wood Armer moments? How to view ?
  Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 civil, plate force, sub domain, wood armer moment
• [NODE/ELEMENT]     How is a truss element and a cable element considered ?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 cable element, civil, truss element
• [PROPERTIES]     How do you define a material property that is not in midas Civil database?
  Updated: Friday, April 19, 2019 civil, material properties, user defined
• [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
• [PROPERTIES]  How to Use Section Stiffness Scale Factors ?
  Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 section manager, section stiffness scale factors, stiffness
• [PROPERTIES]     How to reduce the section capacity to model a cracked section approximately?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, cracked section, scale factor, stiffness
• [PROPERTIES]     How to make a taper from composite T section to composite I?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, composite section, tapered section
• [PROPERTIES]     How to generate uniform tapering irrespective of the number of segments?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 midas civil, tapered section
• [PROPERTIES]   How to use Section for Resultant Forces
  Updated: Tuesday, March 27, 2018
• [BOUNDARY]     Reference for soil theory (Integral Bridge Spring Support)
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary condition, civil, gen, integral bridge, spring support
• [BOUNDARY]     Soil Structure Interaction
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary condition, civil, soil spring supports, soil structure interaction
• [BOUNDARY]     How to model bearings? How to rotate bearings in case of curved bridge?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 bearing, beta angle, civil, curved bridge
• [BOUNDARY]     How to input surface spring coefficient for underground structure?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary conditions, civil, surface spring supports
• [BOUNDARY]     How to provide support at base of a curved bridge deck?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, curved bridge, node local axis, support
• [BOUNDARY]     What is the difference between rigid link and rigid type elastic link ?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary conditions, civil, elastic link, rigid link
• [LOAD]     Horizontal Moving/Live Load (AASHTO - Centrifugal forces)
  Updated: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 centrifugal, civil, horizontal, moving load
• [LOAD]     How to Add Transverse Moving Load
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, moving load, transverse moving load
• [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 civil, moving load, vehicular load distribution
• [LOAD]     Braking Load Application
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 aashto, braking load, civil, moving load
• [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 2 points, civil, curved bridge, moving load, traffic lane
• [LOAD]     How to copy tendon profile of one girder to all other girders?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, tendon, tendon profile
• [LOAD]     How to input temperature gradient load for a general or PSC section?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, psc section, temperature gradient
• [LOAD]     How to get concurrent reactions due to moving load?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, concurrent reaction, moving load
• [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 beam section temperature, civil
• [ANALYSIS]     How to view results of a particular load case separately in construction stages?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, construction stage
• [ANALYSIS]     Why is the model showing reactions at all the nodes, though support has not been provided?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary condition, civil, reaction
• [ANALYSIS]     Why are the stresses not being displayed for moving load cases in the results?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, moving load, stress calculation
• [ANALYSIS]     How does the software consider beam property changes with pre-stressing tendon?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 beam section property, civil, construction stage, tendon
• [ANALYSIS]     Cable element is automatically transformed to equivalent truss element for linear analysis. What does this message imply?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 cable element, civil, truss element
• [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
• [ANALYSIS]     Warnings displayed during analysis that certain load cases have not converged. How to converge all the load cases?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 analysis, civil, convergence tolerance, number of iteration
• [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, eigenvalue, response spectrum analysis
• [ANALYSIS]     Why are certain supports/links, though defined in the model are not applied while performing analysis?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, construction stage, link, support
• [ANALYSIS]     What kind of boundary conditions & elements are available in response spectrum, and time history analysis?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary conditions, civil, element, response spectrum analysis, time history analysis
• [RESULTS]     Comparison of Local Axis and Global Axis
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, global axis, local axis, nodal masses
• [RESULTS]     How to formulate load combinations for construction stage results?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, construction stage, load combination
• [RESULTS]     Displacement of the structure looks unrealistic. How can that be changed?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, displacement
• [RESULTS]     How to view the result table for construction stages?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, construction stage
• [RESULTS]     How to obtain cross sectional stresses for line element?
  Updated: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 beam detail analysis, civil, cross sectional stress
• [RESULTS]     Why are the pre-stress losses given by midas Civil not matching with the manual calculations?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, pre-stress, sequential prestressing, tendon loss, tendon profile, tendon property, time dependent material
• [RESULTS]     Why is dead load results of last construction stage not matching with dead load results in post CS?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, construction stage
• [RESULTS]     How to obtain vehicle position causing Max./Min. force or moment on an element?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, moving load, moving tracer
• [RESULTS]     How to verify for the uplift due to moving load and how to obtain the corresponding vehicle positioning?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, moving load, uplift
• [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, construc, link
• [RESULTS]     The deformations of master and slave nodes of a rigid link are not exactly same. Why?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, deformation, rigid link
• [RESULTS]     Why is the pre-stress elastic deformation loss sometimes positive?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, elastic deformation, tendon loss
• [PSC]     How to view the ultimate moment capacity of PSC girder along with the design moment?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, psc design
• [DESIGN]     Difference between Reinforcement Inputs and Design for PT Bent Caps and RC Bent Caps
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, design, section manager, section properties
• [TOOLS]     How to create a composite PSC / RCC Section with an unsymmetrical slab?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, composite psc, spc
• [TOOLS]     How to import PSC cable profile from AutoCAD drawing?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 autocad, civil, mct command shell, tendon profile, tendon profile generator
• [TOOLS]     How to import a section from an AutoCAD *.dxf file?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 autocad, civil, spc
• Error Message "Can't find .dll file"
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, error message
• Rail Bridge Examples and Training Materials
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, rail track analysis
• How do I troubleshoot Singular Error (Degree of Freedom Error)?
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, error, message, singular
• How to generate input & output data _ midas Civil comparison with other design tools.
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, dynamic report, input, output
• MIDAS Civil 2016 FAQ
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018
• Cannot delete or modify a static load case. Error Message "The load combination name = "..." contains errors."
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, error, load combination, message
• Virtual Sections for Skewed Plates
  Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 section for resultant forces, section offset, skewed, virtual beam
• Civil - Segmental Bridge (Free Cantilever Method)
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 aashto lrfd, balanced cantilever, civil, fcm, moving load, segmental bridge, time dependent material
• Civil - Cable Stayed Bridges
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 cable pretension, cable stayed, cables, construction stage, dynamic analysis, pretension, pylons