OpenSees Example 1b. Elastic Portal Frame

Introduction

Example 1b is a simple model of an elastic portal frame. The objective of this example is to give an overview of input format.

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

Input

Static Pushover Files Ex1b.Portal2D.Push.tcl

Dynamic EQ Ground Motion Files Ex1b.Portal2D.EQ.tcl BM68elc.acc (ground-motion file)

Run

• To run Static Pushover analysis:

source Ex1b.Portal2D.Push.tcl

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

source Ex1b.Portal2D.EQ.tcl

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