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Steel Base Plate Connections
Base plates play a critical role in steel structures by providing a stable and reliable interface between steel columns and their supporting foundations. These structural members ensure the safe transfer of loads from the steel column to the concrete ...
Assessment & PBD to ASCE/SEI 41
ASCE/SEI 41-17—“Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings”—is the industry standard for assessing seismic performance in existing structures. Moreover, it uses performance-based design principles. Consequently, the standard defines a ...
User Defined Acceleration Spectra
ProtaStructure automatically calculates the elastic and design acceleration spectra according to international seismic codes, using a highly parametric UI that encapsulates the code-specific parameters in a user-friendly manner, enabling users to ...
Subbasement Members
Subbasement walls are usually considered as a part of the foundation and provide support for the infills on the ground storey and contains the fill on the foundation. ProtaStructure 2026 enables the users to model these walls on foundation level and ...
RC Pedestals
ProtaStructure 2026 introduces a powerful new feature that simplifies the design and analysis of concrete pedestals under steel columns. Users can seamlessly insert pedestals, define their dimensions effortlessly, and integrate them into structural ...
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ProtaStructure Suite 2025 New Features
As Prota, we have been developing leading structural BIM software for over 40 years. Our product strategy is focused on: Providing new practical modelling approaches Introducing innovative design technologies that will add value to your business and ...
Model Options
Options to be used in analysis can be specified in “Model Options” page of “Building Analysis” form. “Model Options” comprises of four tab pages namely, Model, Shear Wall Model, Slab Model, and Settings. Any modifications made in this page can be ...
Working with Flat Slabs
Flat Slab Guidelines The modelling, analysis and design of flat slab is described in detail here : For ProtaStructure 2022/ ProtaStructure 2024: Flat Slab Modelling, Analysis and Design For Flat Slab and Raft Design with Slab Patch Panel: Flat Slab ...
Interactive Column Design
In the “Column Reinforcement Design” column sections and reinforcement arrangement can be examined and changed interactively. Since columns and walls are the primary members of a structure, especially the critically loaded ones should be designed ...
How to Detect Modeling Errors with Sparse Solver? | ProtaStructure
The presence of unsupported elements in the structural analysis models causes the formation of mechanisms and the inability to solve the equilibrium equations. Since singularity occurs in the stiffness matrix of the structure, its determinant becomes ...