the direction of the period

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yinxia3690
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the direction of the period

Post by yinxia3690 »

Hi, everyone,
I got the period of a bridge, but I donot know the direction.
Is there another method besides outputting the eigenvalue of all nodes?
Thank you!
vesna
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Post by vesna »

You can try to display mode shapes using display command. In the following example you will find explanation of the command and all the arguments:

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