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Hi Zlatko Vidrih.

Then my code is ok, right?

Many thanks in advance.

Don't worry, I'll try to find a solution to this. At the moment, I'm thinking to take advantage of its symmetry. I hope someday OpenSees could handle these kind of joints within a structure.

Anyway, thank you for your continued support .

Hi Silvia. I read the command language manual and didn't find any specific command in which I could model the node 4 easily. Is there any?

Many thanks again.

Could you, please, tell me how is the code for that structure? Because I don't know how to write it.

Many thanks.

No, any structure that has those jointed connections in its interior, like node 4.

Hi Silvia. Let me see if I understood. For this structure: http://i33.tinypic.com/2928oco.jpg The code would be this: (...) model BasicBuilder -ndm 2 -ndf 3 (...) node 1 0. 0. node 2 16. 0. node 3 0. 15. node 31 0. 15. node 4 8. 15. node 5 16. 15. node 51 16. 15. equalDOF 3 31 1 2 3 equalDOF 5 51 1 ...

Hi Silvia. Those jointed connections that you can encounter on an ideal truss.

Thanks.

Any application that you can use together with OpenSees. In other words, what applications do you use in Mac OS X for working with OpenSees?

For example, I just use TextEdit for giving support to OpenSees. Is there any other?

Thanks.

Hi Frank McKenna... I've seen in your keynotes that you use (sometimes) Mac OS X to run your models. My question is whether there are currently apps that support OpenSees under Mac OS X.

Thanks in advance.

How can I put joints within a structure?

Sorry, I didn't know where to place this thread, so I place it in both Documentation and here (OpenSees.exe Users).

Thanks in advance.

Hi Silvia,

Please help me on how to get those files.

I'll appreciate your help.

Additionally I want to add something else... Even if an uniformly-distributed load is applied along the linear-elastic, prismatic beam-column element (through the use of eleLoad -ele $eleTag1 <$eleTag2 ....> -type -beamUniform $Wz <$Wx> ), a minimun of 3 integration points will be required too. The ...

Hi Silvia.

Since I use a mac, the installation file "BuildingTclInstall.bat" won't execute.
My question is: what does the installation file do in order to do it myself by hand.

Thanks in advance.

I conclude this thread by saying this: I finally read the literature. It says that in those cases where we work with linear-elastic, prismatic beam-column element without member loads, a minimun of 3 integration points is required to represent exactly a linear curvature distribution along the eleme...

I conclude this thread by saying this: I finally read the literature. It says that in those cases where we work with linear-elastic, prismatic beam-column element without member loads, a minimun of 3 integration points is required to represent exactly a linear curvature distribution along the eleme...