HI dears,
Why Tension Only member can on;y be run under one UBC case, There are alwas two seismic cases, one for X-direction and one for Z-Direction.
This is my file J13076-0100D-AR-503-Rev0.std
If MEMBER TENSION is specified, it is considered for all cases. Not sure why you mentioned that it is only considered for the first seismic case. For example, if you look at the second seismic case ( load case 2 ) in your model, the bracing 110 shows a tension force while the member 109 shows zero force. The member 109 shows zero force because the member has been switched off from the analysis as it would develop compression under the load 2. So the MEMBER TENSION command is active for load case 2 and for all subsequent cases.
The PERFORM ANALYSIS and CHANGE commands that you have used after load case 17 to 32 are redundant and it is fine to use one PERFORM ANALYSIS and CHANGE after load case 33.
You used a ACC 0.05 but unless you include the accidental torsion as part of the seismic definition, the accidental torsion would not be included. Also use ACC as 1 in this case as the software would internally consider 5% of the building dimension as the accidental eccentricity. What you are specifying here is a multiplication factor for that calculated accidental torsion. So you need to specify
DEFINE IBC 2012 ACCIDENTAL
SS 0.75 S1 0.3 I 1 RX 3 RZ 3 SCLASS 2 TL 12 FA 1 FV 1
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LOAD 1 LOADTYPE Seismic TITLE SX
IBC LOAD X 1 ACC 1
Also depending on which load cases you would like to design against, you may want to use a LOAD LIST command ahead of the PARAMETER 1 to restrict the design to such cases.
Answer Verified By: Khawaldah