how to consider the selfweight of sructure

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ocean2000
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how to consider the selfweight of sructure

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hi,i am new to the opensees,and i have a question follow:
the selfweight of sructure is very important to my model ,so i think there should be a rather exacter way to consider its effct. how to do? the opensees can't define the selfweight?
thanks.
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yopu have to add it as a load, point or uniform.
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using the eleload command, look in the manual
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