OpenSees Example 1a. 2D Elastic Cantilever Column

Introduction

Example 1a is a simple model of an elastic cantilever column. The objective of this example is to give an overview of input format.

While the structural model is the same, there are two lateral-load cases:

Input

Static Pushover Ex1a.Canti2D.Push.tcl

Dynamic EQ Ground Motion Ex1a.Canti2D.EQ.tcl BM68elc.acc (ground-motion file)

Run

1. To run Static Pushover analysis:

source Ex1a.Canti2D.Push.tcl

1. To run EQ ground-motion analysis (BM68elc.acc needs to be downloaded into the same directory):

source Ex1a.Canti2D.EQ.tcl

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