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Hi Anita,

Thank you for your reply.. I held up with other work so I didn't see the forum.. sorry for that.. I sent an email to you, please check your spam folder as well.

Regards,
Jayanthan

Hi Anita, I would like to post my script where I placed shear spring at bottom and modeled zerolength barslip as fiber section, but when I place the shear spring at top instead of placing it at bottom, the script is not working properly.... I also sent you an email regarding this long back, # UBCO #...

Hi Anita, Thanks for replying my post. I am also facing the same issue. Initially, I tried LeBorgne's model for sezen column with one shear spring at the bottom of the column that seems to work fine, where I used calibrated input but I am not getting the perfect degrading slope for shear spring. The...

Hi Anita, This is Jayanthan from UBC, Canada. I am also working on shear critical column. As you used LeBorgne's shear critical model, I too use the same. Could you please tell me how you calculated the stiffness value for rotational spring in soft material and rigid material tag? Thanks & Regar...

Hi alirezacivil, I used this manual for defining value Vi1, Vi2 and Vi3 as given in the manual. I end up in error, displayed as failed to update for displacement control (new void). Could you please share me your opensees code for the column with shear spring problem. Kind regards, Jayanthan m.jayan...

Hi alireza,

I am also modeling column with shear critical.. I would like to know how to calculate the value of Vi1,Vi2 and Vi3 values for assigned shear spring material model?
Could you please help me out?

Thanks
Jayanthan