Dear n respected all I have a confusion between elastic and plate mat while defining spring constant to the mat footing. I have read the technical manual references of STAAD and came across with some new terms like Convex hull & Delaunay triangulation principle. To be honest I'm a B.Tech graduate student and don't have ideas about these words above, because I didn't pass through the knowledge about finite element analysis. Please help me out with the simplest answers that I could follow in when to assign elastic mat and in which case have to assign plate mat spring constant and what will be the effects of these to the footings.
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