n codal provisions and developments are incorporated every version.

Staad on the
other hand has its latest version in 2008,I guess.
With that said, minor improvements are made every version. CSI, the company of
ETABS is in close association & touch with NICEE, IIT Roorkee and other IITs. Hence
field and lab observations are incorporated in ETABS. Design processor of ETABS is
improved in every way possible, like in beams. (This was said by Prof Yogender
Singh, IIT Roorkee). So esp when Indian IS codes are used, enhanced efficiency is
obtained.
Staad always gives higher demand for steel reinforcement. (Which sometimes is
illogical and when checked manually proves to be excessive).This is why reputed
structural consultants in Delhi, Blore, Mumbai moved to ETABS long ago, in addition
to reasons mentioned above. Eg. Vintech consultants, Delhi who designs many
buildings of DLF, Jaypee used ETABS in its office. Also they do this after proving
the credibility of ETABS by manual calculations.
ETABS is used in structural design of Bruj Khalifa, Taipei 101 and many other
prominent high rise. Hence credibility. SOM, worlds leading consultant who also
design Bruj Khalifa, China TV tower mostly uses ETABS. Also most local Gulf/Middle
east consultants use ETABS too. For Burj Khalifa, read paper by the designer
William Baker, SOM- http://global.ctbuh.org/resource...
ETABS have robust feature of pushover/P-delta analysis and time history analysis. A
fren of mine in IIT Gau is doing PhD basically on Pushover designs using ETABS.
Hence the vastness of the software.
Newer versions of ETABS has detailing provisions. Eg. as per SP 34. As we know
detailing takes time and sucks. But ETABS does it post analysis and design and
generates detailing drawings too. Awesome right! (Could be a bane to
Draftsmen\U0001f62c)
Once you correctly define materials in ETABS, things are taken care in the
modelling process. Like ETABS automatically takes care of dead load. You have to
assign dead loads manually in Staad.
If you seriously want to be strong in your analytical skills, read the book written
by the man behind ETABS- Ed Wilson "Three Dimensional Static and Dynamic Analysis
of Structures" This document contains Links to
ETABS is basically product of University of California, Berkely. Credibility.
ETABS is quite self explanatory and the 'Help' inside the software is simple to
understand. Also you will find many useful tutorials in YouTube and PDF.
Tweak-ability of ETABS: Shear wall design, stiffness modifiers, mass source,
restraints, diaphragm...
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