ultimate curvature

[Olympia]

Dear all,

I am trying to do sectional analysis of a column and I would like to know the ultimate curvature of my section. According to these lines of the example provided in
http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index ... on_Example

# set maximum Curvature:
set Ku [expr 0.1];
set numIncr 100; # Number of analysis increments to maximum curvature (default=100)

do I have to define the ultimate curvature or does the program calculate it by itself?

Thanks,
Olympia

[andrett7]

Hi Olimpia,

you need to define the ultimate curvature in order to comunicate to OpenSees when it should stop the section analysis.

Andrea