I am trying to generate the time vs acceleration values from dynamic analysis in staadpro connect edition. In a forum discussion, i have come across a solution of using the SAVE command. It was mentioned to use
TYPE 1 FORCE SAVE
or
TYPE 1 ACCELERATION SAVE
Can anyone help me with how i am supposed to do this?
When you create a Time History definition, you can select Save option there. The save option results in the creation of two files (input file name with .TIM and .FRC file extensions).
The .TIM file contains the history of the displacements of every node.
The .FRC file contains the history of the 12 end forces of every member of the structure at every time step, and the 6 reactions at each support at every step.
I wan to get the time vs acceleration values of the oscillations of a node in a file. According to what you have said, it seems i can only get the displacements. Is there any way to get the acceleration values of the oscillations of a node?
In the Postprocessing workflow go to Layouts -> Acceleration. O the right hand side you will see 3 graphs - one of those will be a Time-Acceleration graph. Right click on it and select an option 'Save data in a text file'. This will save time vs acceleration data in txt file.
I know how to get it manually. I want to generate this file automatically whenever the analysis is run. Is there any OpenStaad function that can automatically get these t vs acc values would be optimal. But I read in a post from 2013 that there was no function in OpenStaad that can get these values and you could instead automaticaly generate a file with these values using the SAVE command and you can then parse them to get the values into Excel.
Is there any OpenStaad function that can get these values? If not please share how get the file with these values automatically whenever you run the analysis.
I would highly appreciate if you could share the documentation or manual for the latest Openstaad or staadpro connect version.