FAQ for 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 bed, civil, multi linear elastic link, rail track analysis
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[NODE/ELEMENT] What are Wood Armer moments? How to view ?
Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 civil, plate force, sub domain, wood armer moment
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[NODE/ELEMENT] How is a truss element and a cable element considered ?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 cable element, civil, truss 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 civil, material properties, 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 reduce the section capacity to model a cracked section approximately?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, cracked section, scale factor, stiffness
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[PROPERTIES] How to make a taper from composite T section to composite I?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, composite section, tapered section
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[BOUNDARY] Reference for soil theory (Integral Bridge Spring Support)
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary condition, civil, gen, integral bridge, spring support
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[BOUNDARY] Soil Structure Interaction
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary condition, civil, 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 bearing, beta angle, civil, curved bridge
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[BOUNDARY] How to input surface spring coefficient for underground structure?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 boundary conditions, civil, surface spring supports
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[BOUNDARY] How to provide support at base of a curved bridge deck?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, curved bridge, node local axis, support
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[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
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[LOAD] Horizontal Moving/Live Load (AASHTO - Centrifugal forces)
Updated: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 centrifugal, civil, horizontal, moving load
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[LOAD] How to Add Transverse Moving Load
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, moving load, 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 civil, moving load, vehicular load distribution
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[LOAD] Braking Load Application
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 aashto, braking load, civil, moving load
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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 2 points, civil, curved bridge, moving load, traffic lane
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[LOAD] How to copy tendon profile of one girder to all other girders?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, tendon, 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, psc section, temperature gradient
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[LOAD] How to get concurrent reactions due to moving load?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, concurrent reaction, moving load
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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 beam section temperature, civil
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[ANALYSIS] How to view results of a particular load case separately in construction stages?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, construction stage
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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 boundary condition, civil, 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 civil, moving load, stress calculation
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[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
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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 cable element, civil, truss 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 analysis, civil, 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, eigenvalue, response spectrum analysis
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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 civil, construction stage, link, support
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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 boundary conditions, civil, element, response spectrum analysis, time history analysis
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[RESULTS] Comparison of Local Axis and Global Axis
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, global axis, local axis, nodal masses
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[RESULTS] How to formulate load combinations for construction stage results?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, construction stage, load combination
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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 civil, construction stage
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[RESULTS] How to obtain cross sectional stresses for line element?
Updated: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 beam detail analysis, civil, 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, pre-stress, sequential prestressing, tendon loss, tendon profile, tendon property, time dependent material
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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 civil, construction stage
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[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
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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 civil, moving load, 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, construc, link
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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, deformation, rigid link
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[RESULTS] Why is the pre-stress elastic deformation loss sometimes positive?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, elastic deformation, 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, design, section manager, section properties
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[TOOLS] How to create a composite PSC / RCC Section with an unsymmetrical slab?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 civil, composite psc, spc
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[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
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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 civil, error, 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, dynamic report, input, output
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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 civil, error, load combination, message
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Civil - Segmental Bridge (Free Cantilever Method)
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 aashto lrfd, balanced cantilever, civil, fcm, moving load, segmental bridge, time dependent material
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