TAAD Pro full form stands for Structural Analysis and Designing Program. STAAD Pro is a structural analysis & design computer program that was being developed by Research Engineers International (REL) at Yorba Linda, California in 1997. Today, STAAD Pro is one of the popular and widely used software for structural analysis and design across the globe by Civil engineers. It supports all types of various steel, concrete, and timber design codes. Using STAAD Pro, civil engineers can design any type of structure, and later share the synchronized model data amongst the entire design team. It ensures on-time and budget-friendly completion of structures and designs related to steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel projects, irrelevant to the complexities. STAAD Pro helps structural engineers to automate their tasks by removing the tedious and long procedures of the manual methods. It allows civil engineers to analyze and design various types of structures on virtual platforms. Structural engineering firms, consultancies, various departments of construction companies, and government firms use STAAD pro extensively.
STAAD Pro helps the engineers in improving the structure, section, and dimensions. It offers faster methods of designing the structure. STAAD Pro is ideal for measuring a wide range of loads, such as Live load, Dead Load, Wind Load, Snow Load, Area Load, or Floor Load.
STAAD Pro is capable of analysing and designing civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, and plane and space trusses.
This software can generate loads (wind and earthquake) as per building codes of selected countries.
Design of steel and reinforced concrete buildings as per the codes of selected countries can also be carried out with STAAD Pro.
It can carry out linear elastic (static and dynamic) and nonlinear dynamic analysis (although I am not sure how good the nonlinear analysis algorithms are, not having used those features).
