Lysmer boundary condition and ground motion input

[sanjianke]

Dear colleague,

I would like to know how to impose the Lysmer(fully reflective) BC in OpenSees. I am building a model to simulate the shake table test of liquefiable soil. Basically, I am following the example "Three-dimensional site response analysis of sloping ground" on OpenSees website. The bottom boundary of the example is bedrock, and the Lysmer dashpot coefficient is calculated as the product of the shear wave velocity and the mass density of the bedrock and the area of the base of the soil column. However, in my case, I need to set the lateral boundaries as the Lysmer BC and the bottom as fixed BC. I am confused to define my Lysmer dashpot coefficient. Besides, it seems there is only one Lysmer dashpot set up at the origin point in that example, I am wondering whether I should assign one dashpot for each lateral node in my model rather than adopting the same policy as the example. Last but not least, I feel confused about the input of the ground motion. Simply, the ground motion is applied as a force time history to the base of the soil column at the node which shares equal DOF with the Lysmer dashpot and This force history is obtained by multiplying the velocity time history of the recorded ground motion by the Lysmer dashpot coefficient, which is so-called the method of Joyner and Chen. I am susceptible if this method can work for my case. Or there exists other ways to input ground motion in OpenSees?

Thanks a lot for answering my questions in advance.

Regards,

[alibesharati]

hi
i have the same Q,How can i impose Lysmer to my model(liquefiable sandy soil)?
i already imposed lysmer dashpot to every lateral nodes in both sides and i let the base to be free in X-direction but i am not sure...
i cheak some example in opensees sides and in all of them just imposed to the one node near the bedrock
please help me how can i impose lysmer dashpot to my model?is there any other way exept what i saw in opensees examples
thanks

[fmk]

http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index ... s_of_Slope