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Hi everyone, I want to consider contribution of the slab in a building model. For this aim, I have to assume a full composite section and equivalent length for calculating beam’s moment of inertia. The Ibarra-Medina-Krawinkler model is used for beams. What should I do for modeling beam composite sec...

Dear vjayaprakash

You can use IDARC software for overcoming this issue.

Is there anyone who can help me?

Thanks

Hi everyone I'm working on pounding problem. I used a zerolength element with ElasticPPGap material to represent the point of impact in two buildings that pound together, but I don know what values should I use for $E and $Fy in ElasticPPGap material? I would be so grateful if someone could guide me...

Dear vjayaprakash

Do you want to consider stiffness and strength degradation as well as pinching effects using Bouc–Wen model?
Do you find a solution for your problem?

Hi everyone

I want to perform a transient analysis, initial conditions are required in order to start step by step time integration. how can I define non-zero initial displacement and/or initial velocity for a particular DOF in my model?

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Dear giovannimilan

Thank you very much. Can you give me an example or more explanations?

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Hi everyone

Is there anyone who can answer above question?

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Hi everyone I want to model impact of two mass spring systems with masses of m1 and m2 and stiffness k1 and k2. Between of two masses is a gap. Firstly, both m1 and m2 are compressed, such that each one has a initial displacement (disp1 ans disp2 related to m1 and m2 respectively). After compressing...