Masonry wall panel

gopaladhikari · Post by **gopaladhikari** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:02 am

hi developers

I just want to know whether opensees has the capability of modeling masonry infill wall with openings and is there any option to consider the stiffness of diaphragm (instead of using rigid one, i want to give some finite stiffness). I also want to do an adaptive pushover and incremental dynamic analysis. Is there any options to do that??
If we have any plan to add those facilities, when it will be available??

Thanks

gopal

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:44 am

i think a few people on the board have done adaptive pushover. i had gotten something a while ago, but haven't been able to dedicate the time to it. maybe someone on the board can share what they have done.

for the floor diaphragm, you can try using the shell or plate elements, depending on what you are trying to model.

for the wall, nothing specific, but you can try modelling with fiber sections in beam-column elements, many people have done that.

gopaladhikari · Post by **gopaladhikari** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:56 am

Thanks Silvia

I checked the forum, may be i overlooked, do you know someone who develop adaptive pushover module for OS. If you know someone, please let me know so that i can contact him/her.

bye

gopal

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:19 am

i don't know anyone specifically in the forum. but i know people at the Rose School have been working on it for a long time.

Ciaran · Post by **Ciaran** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:39 am

gopaladhikari, did you manage to get anything in the end?