I have noticed that the "Constant" Time Series Option for Load Patterns returns the following behavior when used to impose displacement (via " sp $IDnode $IDdof $targetDisp" for-example command):
When using a scaling factor in the time series definition line "<-factor cFactor> option", it is ignored, when taking the factor from there an sticking it in the body of the sp command, re-written as "sp $IDnode $IDdof [expr *$targetDisp*$cFactor]".
Thought I'd let you gus know, may I have a mistake somewhere, but I only switched the multiplier factor loacation, ean the analysis, and looked into the output file to find the displacement have doubled! Probably nobody reported it earlier because nobody needed to scale a Constant input load.
M.Talaat
Possible Bug in TimeSeries optional argument
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