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FAQ for midas Civil

• ↑↓ [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 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

• ↑↓ [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: Monday, September 4, 2023 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

• ↑↓ 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

• ↑↓ Civil - Segmental Bridge (Free Cantilever Method)

  Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 aashto lrfd balanced cantilever civil fcm moving load segmental bridge time dependent material

Q&A forum for midas Civil

• ↑↓ projecting nodes from straight line over a parabola

  Tuesday, June 8, 2021 civil

• ↑↓ Temperature gradient load application in plate elements

  Friday, June 4, 2021 civil fea temperature temperature gradient

• ↑↓ Uncorrect results (deformations, forces) for prestressed beam elements

  Monday, May 31, 2021 civil error section stiffness spc tapered section tendon warnings

• ↑↓ Analysis of a parabolic cable subjected to UDL

  Updated: Sunday, May 7, 2023 cable civil truss element