Hello,
I'm trying to get an understanding of a weight discrepancy between my results in STAAD.Pro and my results in STAAD.Offshore. When I run a simple gravity case for a structure in STAAD.Pro, I get a resultant weight as a sum of the y-reactions at my supports.
Comparatively, when I take the same structure with the same supports in STAAD.Offshore, and run an transportation case setting only the heave acceleration at -1g, the resultant sum of the Y direction forces equates to approximately 1.06 times the resultant weight of the STAAD.Pro model. This has been tested with multiple structures and on multiple computers, so from what I can tell, there may be an issue with the software.
Has anyone else come across this issue? As this will affect the results in all other transportation cases that will be run, I was hoping to sort this out and align the weights prior to finalizing my analysis. I would appreciate any information that anyone could provide on the above.
Best regards,
Eoghan