FAQ for midas Civil

• [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: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 boundary condition civil gen integral bridge spring support
• [BOUNDARY]     Soil Structure Interaction
  Updated: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 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]     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
• Civil Tutorial Manual - PSC Design (AASHT-LRFD 12)
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 aashto aashto lrfd manual psc psc design tutorial
• 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 Bridge Applications
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable bridge cable force tuning cable pretension cable stayed cable stayed bridge cables
• Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Force Tuning
  Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable bridge cable force tuning cable pretension cable stayed cable stayed bridge