Example 1: 2D soil column subjected to earthquake base excitation

Example Provided by: Quan Gu (UCSD)

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This example is taken as a 3-D three-story reinforced concrete frame structure with rigid diaphragm behavior at each floor, subjected to bidirectional earthquake base excitation with ground acceleration time histories taken as the two horizontal components of the 1978 Tabas earthquake.

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File:Figure 2 Total acceleration time history at the base of the soil column File:Figure3 Material propertie of various layers of soil column

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Instructions on how to run this example

To execute this ananlysis in OpenSees the user has to download these files:

• example1_input.tcl