• Comment on Seismic Analysis - Specifying seismic weights through Reference load cases

    Jungmo Ko, The program uses the absolute values of the loads from the reference load cases for calculating the weights for the seismic analysis.

  • RE: ENFORCED SUPPORT COMMAND -WARNING

    PERFORM ANALYSIS CHANGE command has to be added after each seismic load case. In your case, 2000 and 2001. You also will need to add the SET NL 50 command into your input file before the JOINT COORDINATES line.

  • RE: ENFORCED SUPPORT COMMAND -WARNING

    You need to remove the FY release in the enforced but specification so that support displacement would work fine.

  • NOTIONAL LOAD

    SOME CLARIFICATION REQUIRED IN THE USE OF NOTIONAL LOAD *PRIMARY LOAD CASES LOAD 1 DEAD LOAD (DL) JOINT LOAD 13 TO 16 29 TO 32 45 TO 48 61 TO 64 FY -100 LOAD 300: DEAD NOTIONAL LOAD NOTIONAL LOAD 1 X .002 THE ABOVE NOTIONAL LOAD IS APPLIED…

  • LRFD LOAD COMBINATION WITH NOTIONAL LOAD

    I AM TRYING TO USE NOTIONAL LOAD IN THE LRFD DESIGN. CAN ANYBODY CONFIRM IF I HAVE FORMED THE COMBINATION CORRECTLY? PLEASE ALSO CLARIFY IF I HAVE TO DO P DELTA ANALYSIS THEN THE COMMAND FOR THE SAME IS PERFORM PDELTA ANALYSIS AND NOTHING ELSE REQUIRED…
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