Staged-construction stages and output steps

A nonlinear-static staged-construction load case is defined using stages, possibly with multiple operations specified for 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, 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 given stage. When time-dependent behavior is considered for a staged-construction load case, the software saves one additional step per stage to calculate the time-dependent effects.