existing story forces

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samcivil
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existing story forces

Post by samcivil »

hello
how can i record existing story forces in opensees?
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Re: existing story forces

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can you repeat your question?
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Re: existing story forces

Post by samcivil »

hi
I mean every story forces!
does it obtain from summation of column forces in each story?
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Re: existing story forces

Post by Panos »

I think that you mean the total shear force of every column of a storey. I'm not sure if such a recorder is available, but you can you can calculate yourself the total shear force at the post-processing phase (eg. using matlab).
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