Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams and Columns using open STAAD

Abstract

Structural designers especially in India use STAAD software to execute the structural analysis, but for the design purpose still manual calculations and excel spread sheets are being used. It leads to cumbersome and time consuming process to obtain analysis results from STAAD Pro to design calculations, hence to automate this process an MS Excel spread sheet has been developed. A vba program has been developed to access the analysis results from STAAD Pro to MS Excel such that the design process is fully automated which reduces manual interference.