Zerolength drift

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Zerolength drift

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Hi,
What does "recorder drift" show when used for a zerolength element? I mean it might not be drift ratio anymore. Is this just displacement between 2 nodes of zerolength element?

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Re: Zerolength drift

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drift recorder takes the difference between nodal displacements and divides by the difference between the nodes .. if zero difference you should get a divide by 0 error.
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Re: Zerolength drift

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The code has proceeded without any error, although the difference is 0. I have obtained data and diagrams and i dont know what they represent.
Indeed, i have used zerolength to model isolators in my project,
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Re: Zerolength drift

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you should have seen an error message if all elements have zero length in dirn of interest .. if some don't have zero length you will record info on those ONLY .. here is a sample script.


model Basic -ndm 2
node 1 0 0 0
node 2 0 0 0
uniaxialMaterial Elastic 1 100.
element zeroLength 1 1 2 -mat 1 1 1 -dir 1 2 3
fix 1 1 1 1

recorder Node -file node.out -node 1 2 -dof 1 disp
recorder Drift -file drift.out -iNode 1 -jNode 2 -dir 1

timeSeries Linear 1
pattern Plain 1 1 {
load 2 1. 1. 1.
}
analysis Static
analyze 1
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Re: Zerolength drift

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The code for one case is "recorder Drift -file drift1.out -iNode 1 -jNode 2 -dof 3 -perpDirn 1" , "recorder Drift -file drift2.out -iNode 13 -jNode 2 -dof 3 -perpDirn 1", and the zerolength element is consist of node 1 and node 13.
Do the above two codes mean curvature? The curvature of the zero-length element can be obtained by obtaining DRFT1-DRIFT2?
PLEASE HELP ME!
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Re: Zerolength drift

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No these are not related to curvature.
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Re: Zerolength drift

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selimgunay wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:56 pm No these are not related to curvature.
Thank you for your answer! May I ask what does this mean?

recorder Drift -file drift1.out -iNode 1 -jNode 2 -dof 3 -perpDirn 1"

Looking forward to your recovery. Thanks again
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Re: Zerolength drift

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This is a recorder to obtain the drift (displacement normalized by length of the member) between nodes 1 and 2 for DOF 3. You can find explanations of the parameters used in this recorder here:

https://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/inde ... t_Recorder
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Re: Zerolength drift

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selimgunay wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:17 am This is a recorder to obtain the drift (displacement normalized by length of the member) between nodes 1 and 2 for DOF 3. You can find explanations of the parameters used in this recorder here:

https://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/inde ... t_Recorder
Thank you for your reply and information. I have learned it, but I still don't know " -Dof 3-perpdirn 1" means. :( Why divide the rotation between two nodes by the distance between them?
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Re: Zerolength drift

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The common usage of this is for horizontal displacements to obtain the drift ratio as the displacement divided by the length of the element. It is not so meaningful for rotations.
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Re: Zerolength drift

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selimgunay wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:12 pm The common usage of this is for horizontal displacements to obtain the drift ratio as the displacement divided by the length of the element. It is not so meaningful for rotations.
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