Plain GroundMotion

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This command is used to construct a plain GroundMotion object. Each GroundMotion object is associated with a number of TimeSeries objects, which define the acceleration, velocity and displacement records for that ground motion. The command is as follows:


groundMotion $gmTag Plain <-accel $tsTag> <-vel $tsTag> <-disp $tsTag> <-int (IntegratorType intArgs)>

where

$gmTag unique tag among ground motions in load pattern
$tsTag tag of TimeSeries object created using timeSeries command.
integratorType ... used to generate a numerical integrator. default TRAPEZOIDAL. see NOTES below.


NOTES:

  1. The displacements are the ones used in the ImposedMotions to set nodal response.
  2. If only the acceleration TimeSeries is provided, numerical integration will be used to determine the velocities and addelerations.
  3. For earthquake excitations it is important that the user provdide the displacement time history, as the one generated using the trapezoidal method will not provide good results.
  4. Any combination of the acceleration, velocity and displacement time-series can be specified.

Code Developed by: fmk