Getting Started

by Silvia Mazzoni, Frank McKenna, Gregory L. Fenves

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center University of California, Berkeley OpenSees version 1.6.0

The original documentation and validation examples of the Getting Started with OpenSees Manual were supported by NEESgrid subcontract award 04-344 from the NEESgrid System Integrator (SI) under NSF grant CMS-0117853

• Introduction
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Download OpenSees
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Run OpenSees
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Problem Definition
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Model Builder
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Nodes
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Elements
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Recorders
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Summary of Model-Building Input File
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Loads and Analysis
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Gravity Loads
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Summary of Gravity Loads
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Lateral Loads -- Static Pushover
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Lateral Loads -- Cyclic Lateral Load
• Getting Started with OpenSees -- Lateral Loads -- Dynamic ground motion