Model of tallbuilding in opensees

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dinochen1983
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Model of tallbuilding in opensees

Post by dinochen1983 »

I have already built a model of tallbuilding(60story) in perform3d by prep program which is make by myself, now I want to built a Model of tallbuilding in opensees, has anyone got the experience of built such a huge model in opensees???????

perform3d is excellence software to analysis a real structure but now i need opensees to exam the result??

do the numbers of nodes, materials, elements have limits???

if i built such huge model, how to record the result?????

how to get the story force such as story shear and overturing moment??
Structure Engineer and CAD/CAE Programmer
Form South China University of Technology
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silvia
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Post by silvia »

is it in 3d???
60-story building should be okey.
you have to do a script, do take advantage of Tcl and such.
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