FAQ for midas Civil
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[VIEW] Various display options
Updated: Monday, September 4, 2017 display option element color midas civil thickness
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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 Use Section Stiffness Scale Factors ?
Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 section manager section stiffness scale factors stiffness
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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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[PROPERTIES] How to generate uniform tapering irrespective of the number of segments?
Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 midas civil tapered section
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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: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 boundary condition civil gen integral bridge spring support
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[BOUNDARY] Soil Structure Interaction
Updated: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 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] 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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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 civil error load combination message
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Virtual Sections for Skewed Plates
Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 section for resultant forces section offset skewed virtual beam
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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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Civil - Cable Stayed Bridges
Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 cable pretension cable stayed cables construction stage dynamic analysis pretension pylons
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Civil Tutorial Manual - PSC Design (AASHT-LRFD 12)
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 aashto aashto lrfd manual psc psc design tutorial
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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
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Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Bridge Applications
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable bridge cable force tuning cable pretension cable stayed cable stayed bridge cables
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Civil Tutorial Manual - Cable Force Tuning
Updated: Friday, December 14, 2018 cable bridge cable force tuning cable pretension cable stayed cable stayed bridge