Modeling problem

jboshra · Post by **jboshra** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:06 am

Dear,
I want to model a CONTINOUS girder connected to column through bearings (only the upper node of column doesn’t carry moment).
how can I model this connection?

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:20 am

put two nodes at the same place. connect the beams to one node, the column top to the other and then connect the two nodes via zero-length elements, if you have stiffnesses, or just equaldofs if you want to just constrain some dofs and release others.