Triangle uniformly-distributed load pushover analysis

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wfwest
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Triangle uniformly-distributed load pushover analysis

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Dear vesna:
How to realize the triangle uniformly-distributed load pushover analysis?Can you give me an example?
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Re: Triangle uniformly-distributed load pushover analysis

Post by vesna »

Lets say that you have 2D 3-storey frame with x axis in horizontal direction, the load pattern would be like this:

pattern Plain 10 Linear {
load $nodeTagStorey1 1.0 0.0 0.0
load $nodeTagStorey2 1.0 0.0 0.0
load $nodeTagStorey3 1.0 0.0 0.0
}
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