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Hello, I know this is an older forum, but I've been thinking that it would be nice for OpenSees to have the option to apply gravity loads to the model based on the mass matrix and specified gravity. This would be particularly helpful when using the massDens option with beam-column elements, and woul...

Thank you for your response. I will continue using 2.4.3 for now until I figure out why my forces are all zero. I will post again if the solution is relevant to other users.

On the topic of recorder errors, the newest release (2.4.4) does not record forces for zeroLengthContact2D elements. It just gives zeros. The recorder works fine in 2.4.3. Has anything been purposely changed, or is this a bug in the new release?

Best,
Taylor

Hello, I have a curious problem when capturing the hysteretic response of a buckling brace using force-based beam column elements. This is based on the question by the first poster, salehi. When I plot the hysteresis on the brace in a system with only mass-proportional damping, the hysteresis from d...