tailieunhanh - MIDAS/Civil Getting Started

MIDAS/Civil is the ultimate Integrated Civil Engineering Solution for designing bridges and general civil structures. It retains construction stage analysis capabilities for Prestressed/Post-tensioned concrete, Suspension, Cable Stayed, Specialty and Conventional bridges and Heat of , developed in the object-oriented programming language Visual C++, fully exploits the advantages and the characteristics of the 32bit Windows environment for technical computations. The user-oriented input/output functions are based on sophisticated and intuitive User Interface and up-to-date Computer Graphics techniques. They offer excellent facilities and productivity for the modeling and analysis of complex, large-scale structures | . A . S C. v. Getting Started CIVIL 1 MIDAS Family Programs are the group of software packages for structural analysis and design developed by MIDAS IT Co. Ltd. MIDAS Family Programs and all associated documentation are copyrighted and protected by the computer program protection law. For any enquiry concerning the program or related materials please contact the following MIDASoft Inc. 38701 Seven Mile Road Suite 260 Livonia MI 48152 USA________ MIDASoft Modeling Integrated Design Analysis Software Phone 1-800-584-5541 E-mail MIDASoft@ http Trademarks and Registered Trademarks referred to in this User s Guide are as follows ADINA is a registered trademark of ADINA R D Inc. AutoCAD is a registered trademark of Autodesk Inc. ETABS SAFE and SAP2000 are registered trademarks of Computers and Structures Inc. Excel is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Intel 386 486 and Pentium are trademarks of Intel Corporation. MIDAS is a registered trademark of MIDAS Information Technology Co. Ltd. NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA . NISA II is a trademark of Engineering Mechanics Research Corporation. ScreenCam is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. Sentinel is a trademark of Rainbow Technologies Inc. STAAD Pro is a trademark of Research Engineers Inc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Internet Explorer is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. CIVIL 2 PROGRAM VERIFICATION AND PRECAUTIONS BEFORE GETTING STARTED MIDAS Family Programs produce accurate analysis results based on up-to-date theories and numerical techniques published in recognized journals. The programs have been verified by thousands of examples and comparative analyses with other S W during the development. Since the initial development in 1989 MIDAS Family Programs have been accurately and effectively applied to over 5 000 .