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by mackie
Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:19 pm
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: recording stresses
Replies: 1
Views: 3233

You can only record stresses and strains for fiber elements with cross sections of interest. To record a particular fiber number: recorder Element $ele -file $filename section $sec fiber $i stressStrain To record at a y,z coordinate in the section: recorder Element $ele -file $filename section $sec ...
by mackie
Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:13 pm
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: Inputs for materials
Replies: 2
Views: 4185

Steel03:
uniaxialMaterial Steel03 tag? fy? E0? b? r? rtype? <a1? a2? a3? a4?>
try with rtype = 2 (Dhakal and Maekawa), r = 20 for starters

Concrete04:
uniaxialMaterial Concrete04 $matTag $fc $ec $ecu $Ec <$ft $et> <$beta>
by mackie
Sat May 07, 2005 2:04 pm
Forum: Feature Requests/Future Directions
Topic: save as/print out feature
Replies: 2
Views: 10195

save as/print out feature

It struck me as a need for future model generation, debugging, sharing, and visualization that there be a standard in terms of a model file I/O feature. Let me motivate this by saying that a lot of the power in the usage of OpenSees is derived from the fact that it is built upon the tcl scripting la...
by mackie
Thu May 05, 2005 9:36 am
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: modeling cables
Replies: 3
Views: 5317

The -mass switch on nonlinearBeamColumn doesn't work, I've posted it in bugzilla already but perhaps it will help if you do as well.
by mackie
Mon May 02, 2005 11:22 am
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: Elastic Perfectly Plastic Gap Material
Replies: 6
Views: 8558

ok, while I'm continually making some more errors, I just noticed it says Elastic ElasticPPGap, which is of course not true, it's just ElasticPPGap :)
by mackie
Mon May 02, 2005 11:10 am
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: Elastic Perfectly Plastic Gap Material
Replies: 6
Views: 8558

errr, sorry, the eta comes before the damage in the new version, but can be omitted so that the previous syntax is still valid. ie, the old way works: uniaxialMaterial Elastic ElasticPPGap $matTag $E $Fy $gap <damage> and the new way is: uniaxialMaterial Elastic ElasticPPGap $matTag $E $Fy $gap <eta...
by mackie
Mon May 02, 2005 11:06 am
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: Elastic Perfectly Plastic Gap Material
Replies: 6
Views: 8558

silvia, this is the current syntax: uniaxialMaterial Elastic ElasticPPGap $matTag $E $Fy $gap <damage> but Frank is sitting on a new version that has kinematic hardening built in, so the syntax in a day or so will then become: uniaxialMaterial Elastic ElasticPPGap $matTag $E $Fy $gap <damage> <eta?>...
by mackie
Mon May 02, 2005 10:55 am
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: Elastic Perfectly Plastic Gap Material
Replies: 6
Views: 8558

yes, just add the word
damage
to the end of your uniaxialMaterial

it functions as you would expect
by mackie
Mon May 02, 2005 10:54 am
Forum: OpenSees.exe Users
Topic: The reference about Elastic Perfectly Plastic Gap Material
Replies: 1
Views: 3689

It didn't come from a reference. I coded it from scratch.