16. Friction Pendulum System - Seismic Isolation - High Load Multi-Rotational Bearings
For RM Bridge inside OpenBridge Designer , as shown in the pictures below, the Friction Pendulum System - FPS - is a support device that provides the structure with some level of Seismic Isolation , it is also known as High Load Multi-Rotational - HLMR…
9. Flexibility & Stiffness Matrix
The Demo Example number 9. Flexibility & Stiffness Matrix has an example of how to group elements to represent their structural behavior.
In general, it is very useful for large projects to reduce the size of the model and therefore the computational…