GTSTRUDL 27

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GTSTRUDL 27 This latest version of GTSTRUDL
includes numerous new features, feature
enhancements, error corrections, and prerelease
features. GTSTRUDL is developed and supported
at The Computer Aided Structural Engineering
(CASE) Center School of Civil Engineering Georgia
Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia
30332-0355 U.S.A. Tel [phone] Fax 1-404-
8948014 email Address casec_at_ce.gatech.edu Demons
trations 1 and 2 provide step-by-step
descriptions of using GTSTRUDL to respectively
create a structure using the Model Wizard and the
GTMenu graphical user interface.
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GTSTRUDL 27 DEMONSTRATION 1 1. This
Demonstration 1 Slide Show demonstrates the use
of the Model Wizard to create a simple structure
using a predefined modeling template, and then
using the GTMenu graphical user interface to
display the structure and analysis results. 2.
The slides in this Demonstration Slide Show are
advanced by clicking the left mouse button, or by
using the Down/Up Arrow keys, or by clicking the
PgDn/PgUp (page down/up) keys. 3. The Slide Show
may be exited by clicking the right mouse
button. 4. Since GTMenu will occupy the full
screen, the Demonstration Slide Show screen can
be displayed alternately with the GTMenu screen
by clicking the Alt - Tab keys at the same time.
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Plane Frame Structure of Demonstration 1
Material Steel Member Properties Loads Bea
ms Table WBEAM9 1 Self
Weight Shape W18X35 2
Uniform Live Load 3 Wind
Load from Left Columns Table WCOLUMN9 10
1 2 3 (ALL) Shape
W14X53
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Initiating GTSTRUDL 27 GTSTRUDL may be initiated
from the Start menu by clicking Start - Programs
- GTSTRUDL 27 - GTSTRUDL 27 as follows
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• Starting GTSTRUDL in the Model Wizard
• When GTSTRUDL is initiated, this GT STRUDL
  StartupWizard opening dialog will appear with the
  default working directory in the Working
  Directory Dialog Area. The working directory may
  be changed if desired (e.g., C\UserFolder).
• Click the Model Wizard option, and then click the
  OK button which opens the main GT STRUDL output
  window , and then opens the Model Wizard dialog
  box.

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Click the Plane Frame option. Click the OK
button. The Plane Frame Model Wizard generation
template will be displayed.
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Click the Next button to continue..
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Select the Force-Kilonewtons force unit menu
option to change the force unit to
Kilonewtons. Click the Next button.
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Set geometry options to 3 bays, 2 floors, and 6
meters per bay length, and 3 meters per story
height. Click the Next button.
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Use the default Fixed support option. Click the
Next button.
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Use the default cross-section profiles of W18X35
for all beams, and W14X53 for all columns. Check
the Self-Weight option for all members. Click
the Next button.
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Specify a uniform live load on all beams of 60
kn/m. Click the Next button.
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Specify an applied wind load from the left of 50
kn. applied to each free joint on the left side
of the structure. Click the Next button.
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Specify an applied wind load from the left of 50
kn. applied to each free joint on the left side
of the structure. Click the Next button.
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The Plane Frame model is now fully specified.
Click the Finish button to exit and run the
resulting GTSTRUDL commands.
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The result of processing the GTSTRUDL commands
and data created by the Model Wizard.
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Select the Analysis - Static Analysis (Stiffness
Analysis) menu option to perform a linear static
analysis of the structure.
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Click the button in the Tool Bar in
order to enter GTMenu.
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In GTMenu, select the Label-Display and Label
Settings menu options.
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Select Label-All Joints and Label-All
Members. Click the Redraw and Done buttons.
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Select the View menu option. Select the Isometric
View option in the View Dialog box.
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• In order to display a solid view of the
  structure
• Select the Redraw Solid menu option.

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Select the View menu option. Select the XY Plane,
along -Z axis option in the View Dialog box.
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Select the Results - Force/Moment Diagrams
Envelopes menu options. The Member Forces dialog
box will appear.
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Select the Moment Z option.
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Click the Select Load option in the Member Forces
dialog box. Select Load 3, and click the Done
button in the Current Loads dialog box.
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Click the Display and Add to List button to
display the Moment Z diagram for Loading 3 on all
displayed members.
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Click the Label button. Click the cursor at the
location for which the value of Moment Z is to be
displayed.
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Place and click the cursor at the location on the
screen where the value and location of Moment Z
is to be displayed
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Click the Print button in order to print a hard
copy image to the current system default printer.
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Select the File - End GTMenu menu options to exit
GTMenu.
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Select the No option since no changes were made
to the structural model in GTMenu. GTMenu will
now be exited, and the GT STRUDL output window
will be displayed.
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Select the Results - Static..(Text Output) -
Reactions menu options to list support reactions.
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Click the OK button to list support reactions
for All support joints.
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Support reactions for All support joints and all
currently active loading conditions are listed in
a formatted text table in the GTSTRUDL output
window.
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Select the File - Exit menu options to exit
GTSTRUDL.
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Select the OK menu option to terminate the
execution GTSTRUDL.
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Select the No menu option to immediately exit
GTSTRUDL. The Yes option provides for the saving
of the GTSTRUDL text output created during the
processing this GTSTRUDL job.
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• GTSTRUDL 27
• DEMONSTRATION 1 - Completed
• This Demonstration 1 Slide Show demonstrated the
  use of the Model Wizard to create a simple
  structure using a predefined modeling template,
  and then using the GTMenu graphical user
  interface of GTSTRUDL to graphically display the
  structure and analysis results.
• GTSTRUDL 27 includes the following features
• GTMenu graphical modeling
• Static frame and finite element analysis
• Dynamic Analysis
• Advanced Analysis including Nonlinear Static
  and
• Dynamic Analysis, Cable Analysis, Superelements,
  and
• other advanced analysis features
• Steel design of frame structures
• Reinforced concrete design of frame structures
• Data Base Exchange (DBX)
• Offshore jacket analysis and design
• GTTABLE for the creation of tables of steel
  shape names
• and properties

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GTSTRUDL 27 DEMONSTRATION 2 The Demonstration 2
Slide Show (accessed from the Start Menu as shown
below) demonstrates the use of the GTMenu
graphical user interface to create a simple
structure, and then to graphically display the
structure and analysis results.
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GTSTRUDL 27 TUTORIALS 1, 2, and 3 Tutorials 1,
2, and 3 which are described in the GTSTRUDL User
Guide Getting Started, are additional examples
of the use of GTSTRUDL, and may be accessed from
the on-line Help facility in GTSTRUIDL as shown
below.