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hamidreza
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Post by hamidreza »

dear silvia
does opensees consider pdelta effect by it self infiber section?
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silvia
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for any section, it is handled by the geometricTransformation command
which is then associated to the element -- for beam-column elements. for truss elements you use the corotationaltruss
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