FAQ for midas Civil

• 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
• Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Force Tuning
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable stayed, cable pretension, cable force tuning, cable bridge, cable stayed bridge
• Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Bridge Applications
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable stayed, cables, cable pretension, cable force tuning, cable bridge, cable stayed bridge
• Civil Tutorial Manual - PSC Design (AASHT-LRFD 12)
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 psc, psc design, aashto lrfd, aashto, tutorial, manual
• [VIEW]     Various display options
  Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 thickness, display option, element color, midas civil
• [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 civil, rail track analysis, multi linear elastic link, bed
• [NODE/ELEMENT]     What are Wood Armer moments? How to view ?
  Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 civil, sub domain, wood armer moment, plate force
• [NODE/ELEMENT]     How is a truss element and a cable element considered ?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, truss element, cable element
• [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
• [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 stiffness, section manager, section stiffness scale factors
• [PROPERTIES]     How to reduce the section capacity to model a cracked section approximately?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, stiffness, scale factor, cracked section
• [PROPERTIES]     How to make a taper from composite T section to composite I?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, tapered section, composite section
• [PROPERTIES]     How to generate uniform tapering irrespective of the number of segments?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 tapered section, midas civil
• [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 gen, civil, boundary condition, spring support, integral bridge
• [BOUNDARY]     Soil Structure Interaction
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, boundary condition, 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 curved bridge, civil, bearing, beta angle
• [BOUNDARY]     How to input surface spring coefficient for underground structure?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, boundary conditions, surface spring supports
• [BOUNDARY]     How to provide support at base of a curved bridge deck?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 curved bridge, civil, support, node local axis
• [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
• [LOAD]     Horizontal Moving/Live Load (AASHTO - Centrifugal forces)
  Updated: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 moving load, civil, centrifugal, horizontal
• [LOAD]     How to Add Transverse Moving Load
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, 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 moving load, civil, vehicular load distribution
• [LOAD]     Braking Load Application
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, civil, braking load, aashto
• [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
• [LOAD]     How to copy tendon profile of one girder to all other girders?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 tendon, civil, tendon profile
• [LOAD]     How to input temperature gradient load for a general or PSC section?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, temperature gradient, psc section
• [LOAD]     How to get concurrent reactions due to moving load?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 moving load, concurrent reaction, civil
• [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
• [ANALYSIS]     How to view results of a particular load case separately in construction stages?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, civil
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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 civil, analysis, 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, response spectrum analysis, eigenvalue
• [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
• [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
• [RESULTS]     Comparison of Local Axis and Global Axis
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, local axis, global axis, nodal masses
• [RESULTS]     How to formulate load combinations for construction stage results?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 construction stage, load combination, civil
• [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 construction stage, civil
• [RESULTS]     How to obtain cross sectional stresses for line element?
  Updated: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 civil, beam detail analysis, 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, tendon profile, tendon loss, tendon property, pre-stress, time dependent material, sequential prestressing
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [RESULTS]     Why is the pre-stress elastic deformation loss sometimes positive?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 elastic deformation, civil, 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, section properties, section manager, design
• [TOOLS]     How to create a composite PSC / RCC Section with an unsymmetrical slab?
  Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, spc, composite psc
• [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
• [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 error, civil, message, singular
• How to generate input & output data _ midas Civil comparison with other design tools.
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 civil, input, output, dynamic report
• 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 error, load combination, civil, message
• Virtual Sections for Skewed Plates
  Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 skewed, section offset, section for resultant forces, virtual beam
• Civil - Segmental Bridge (Free Cantilever Method)
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 moving load, civil, time dependent material, segmental bridge, fcm, balanced cantilever, aashto lrfd
• Civil - Cable Stayed Bridges
  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 construction stage, cable stayed, cables, pretension, cable pretension, pylons, dynamic analysis