Bentley, Tata Steel Extend STAAD.Pro

Bentley Systems has announced that, in cooperation with Tata Steel, it has extended STAAD.Pro, the world's #1 structural analysis and design software, to accommodate the use of cost-saving Tata Structura steel components in structural design work. 

STAAD.Pro allows users to assign any material to any steel shape. However,STAAD.Pro users had beenchallenged when it came to using Tata Structura components in their information modeling since these shapes are only available from Tata in specific grades of steel. 

Bentley and Tata Steel “workedsmarter, together” to remove this obstacle, further enhancing productivity and saving users time and money during the project design phase. Bentley modified STAAD.Pro V8i (SELECTseries 3) so that specific grades of steel are automatically assigned to the steel members that incorporate Tata Structura sections. 

“We see this additional functionality first introduced in STAAD.Pro V8i (SELECTseries3) as a real value-add for our company,” said Debasish Purakayastha, Technical Director, MN Dastur. “When applicable, we prefer to use Tata Structura hollow steel sections because of their greater compressive strength, lower slenderness ratio, and higher yield strength. Using these sections offers us as much as a 30 percent reduction in steel consumption compared to conventional sections and this, in turn, lowers handling, transportation, fabrication, and erection costs.”