transient analyze

[vutaikt]

how to get the start time and the terminal time of the transient analyze.i want to know how much time it costs to do the transient analyze. thanks a lot.

[Ameri]

Not sure what you exactly mean by this, but this is the user who usually determines the duration of the analysis. You can start transient analysis at t=0 and it would continue until t= ($numIncr)*($lambda), where lambda is the load factor increment, and $numIncr is the number of analysis steps to perform. So if you define lambda az 0.01 and numIncr as 2000, your analysis would last for 20 seconds. I think you should also have a glance to this page: http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index ... s_Commands

[fmk]

if you want the wall time:

set tStart [clock clicks -milliseconds]

... YOUR WORK

set tEnd [clock clicks -milliseconds]
puts "DURATION: [expr ($tEnd-$tStart)/1000]"