CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 October 2012
Product News
Bentley and Tata Steel Facilitate Use of Tata Structura Components in STAAD.Pro V8i (SELECTseries 3) Models
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced that, in cooperation with Tata Steel, it has extended STAAD.Pro 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 been challenged 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 "worked smarter, 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 (SELECTseries 3) as a real value-add for our company," said Debasish Purakayastha, technical director, M N 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."
"It was a pleasure working with the Bentley team in bringing this new capability to thousands of users in the marketplace," said Atanu Chatterjee, design engineer, Tata Structura Studio. "STAAD.Pro has a long-standing reputation for handling just about any structural member, and the list of components it can accommodate just became all the more comprehensive. We know our users will appreciate being able to take advantage of our cost- and time-saving steel sections, while simultaneously benefiting from STAAD.Pro's wide range of modeling tools and analysis and design options."
Santanu Das, Bentley vice president, structural and bridge development, said, "Bentley is committed to working smarter, together with our users to drive innovation that helps them save time and money on projects and become more competitive and successful. We saw the addition of the Tata Steel Structura components to our STAAD.Pro offering as a way to provide our users in India and beyond with yet more flexibility in their design work, and the stellar cooperation we received from the Tata Steel team greatly expedited the process. We see this as a win for Bentley, Tata Steel, and our shared users."
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