A nonlinear-static staged-construction load case is defined by using stages, possibly with the option of multiple operations being specified for a single stage. Depending on the user's input on the "each stage. A single result or multiple results may be saved for a given stage, depending upon the input assigned to the Results Saved for Nonlinear Static Load Cases " form, the program can save either a single result or multiple results (called steps) for a given stage:
Currently, the results are reported only in the terms of cumulative steps and the user would need to determine (based on form, shown in Figure 1:
Figure 1 - Results Saved for Nonlinear Static Load Cases
Results are reported in terms of cumulative steps. The correspondence between output steps and input stages must be determined according to the number of steps saved for a stage) the correspondence between output steps and input stagesgiven stage. When time-dependent behavior is considered for a staged-construction load case, the program software saves one additional step per stage to calculate the time-dependent effects.