PLastic hinge rotation

amarnath · Post by **amarnath** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:29 am

I am using plastic hinge beam column element. can someone tell me how to het the plastic hinge rotation values?

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:28 am

is this the beam with hinges?
take the curvature and multiply it by the hinge length.

amarnath · Post by **amarnath** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:45 am

Sir I figured out the same. Is the curvature constant over the plastic hinge length?since the curvature is not constant over the length by multiplying the curvature by the pl hinge length the result will not be accurate......
Can you please clarify this?

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:00 pm

it depends on the element formulation.

amarnath · Post by **amarnath** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:05 pm

Can you please clarify this point?

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:54 am

it depends on the type of element you are using.