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Hi all, In my study I need to model the brick elements and the interaction of them (say, mortar) with the surrounding frame, and also with the steel strips that are laterally placed between brick layers. For the bricks between the steel strips, I decided to use Quad element and for the mortar, I dec...

It's been almost 7 years that you asked this question but I was wondering if you answer my following question:

Which material did you use for Quad element while modeling the masonry?

Thank you vesna, I will work on that.

Thank you very much etahmasebi for your explanation.

Are there any way to obtain or record the damping (or at least stiffness) matrix of a system in OpenSees?
During time history analysis, I need to get what damping ratio does OpenSees calculate for each mode when using mass and stiffness proportional Rayleigh damping command.

Is there any way to run OpenSees files (files with .tcl extension) from Notepad++? I am modifying .tcl files in Notepad++ but when running I have to open them with TclEditor.