Brief introduction to construction stages

Module Construction stages allows for general modelling of the construction process.In combination with the TDA module the analysis also takes account of time as a new input variable. For r the purpose of the time dependent calculation a global, local and detailed time axis is introduced and individual time nodes are generated. The over-time development and changes in the structure, cross-sections or loading, though, are modelled via individual "stages of construction", where each of these stages is given a number, name and global time

The responses (results) of the loading increments are saved into separate loading cases separately for the effect of the permanent loading increment, prestressing, and the sum of the rheology effects during the previous time interval.