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Dear All,

Is there a recorder command in OS to get the reactions at a node instead of the round-about way of figuring out the elements connected to the node and then summing up their end forces?

shisha.

Dear All, I am just wondering the different reasons for which the following error will be reported by OS: addMP_Constraint - cannot add as constraint with tag 8 already exists in model The user does not assign any tag to the multipoint constraints. In that case, the internal naming of the mulitpoint...

To add to Frank's reply to Jayram's question about the column pushover: ..the dispBeamColumn element can only model a linear curvature distribution by vitue of the cubic shape functions (assuming this to be the usual choice) it uses to approximate the displacement field within the element, cannot ca...

Dear All, I am just wondering how many of us using OS presently (and will probably use it for the rest of our lives) really miss a graphical user interface (something like SAP and Patran). As a two year old user of the program I feel a GUI will make life easier trying to use OS. Though there is OSP ...

Hi All, Earlier I had said that I had build problems with Opensees1.5.2. I used the 1.4 version and it compiled successfully. I added the timoshenko elasticBeamColumn element to the 1.4 version successfully (I can give the code if anyone needs it). If anyone can give me suggestion to fix the compila...

Hi All, I have been having problems compiling OpenSees 1.5.2 using VC++ 6.0. The error messages go like this: compiling... TclDatabaseCommands.cpp d:\shisha\opensees\utilities\os source code\opensees\src\database\tcldatabasecommands.cpp(78) : error C2664: 'Tcl_CreateCommand' : cannot convert paramet...