Each material has unique damping properties. If you want to analyze a structure composed of both steel and concrete you will have two different RS data with different damping properties for each material.  For example the first floor of a building is made of concrete and the floors above are made of steel. You can set different damping values for each material, but the RS curve to be used would only have a single damping value. To solve this you can define two different RS data pairs with unique damping properties for each material and assign them to their respective elements for analysis. This video will walk you through the procedure to define multiple RS data sets with different damping properties and instruct the program to analyze a structure with multiple damping properties. https://youtu.be/cdVg-TlvRLQ Related Articles  STAAD Learning Path

The most common type of retaining wall section is tapered with a stepped pattern. You can model the retaining wall in STAAD Analytical Modeler and generate the finite element mesh. Using the STAAD.Pro Physical Modeler interface you can modify geometrical as well as loading information anytime without having to delete the meshed model.

For a large structure, the architectural display is one of the most vital aspects of a building’s design, and of nearly equal importance is the building facade. Structures can boast huge front facades that support glass panels to retain the aesthetic beauty with minimalistic appearance.

STAAD Foundation Advanced (SFA) is a powerful software for designing various types foundations, be it in building,  industrial or plant structure.  However, there has been a long-standing requirement for demonstration of the workflow on importing the support reaction and other information directly from spreadsheet to SFA. This is required when the engineer working on SFA doesn’t have STAAD on his computer and his client or colleague wants to  provide him with the support reaction values determined post STAAD analysis. The best way is exchanging the support reaction extracted from STAAD through spreadsheet. This video walks you through the step-by-step procedures to set the proper format of the spreadsheet and then import it to SFA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZudEQQ0Xf0

This content is intended to give a quick tour on how to generate the MASS modeling for seismic analysis.
For a model that needs to have the static seismic as well as the response spectrum defined (mainly for the base shear comparison and scaling up the response quantities by “base shear due from static seismic” / “base shear due from response spectrum”), one must manually define the seismic weight and the mass modeling for both static seismic and response spectrum respectively. Unfortunately, this procedure can be very time-consuming if the model is large as the inertial information is to be defined twice in two separate situations.