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Dear obaidullah khan

As it is written in SeismoStruct's User Manual: "Masonry spandrel section - mss. This is a section frequently adopted for the modelling of coupling beams between two wall elements.".

Dear minhajulBP, In the Modelling Parameters module of each member you import to the Building Modeller, you may modify the material models used for the specific member, concrete and steel models may be selected. The default option may be modified and it is the one selected in the Advanced Building M...

Dear fernnie_gae,

There are no automatic checks for infill walls available in the current release of SeismoBuild.
In order to check things, go to the post-processor and extract the element results for the infills (Infill Panel Forces & Infill Panel Deformations).

Dear ESTRUCTO, In the material properties, the lower-bound strength and the mean strength are available. The mean strength is the result of the multiplication of the lower-bound strength with the factors you mentioned. In the Code-based checks, the values required by ASCE 41 are used, i.e. the mean ...

Dear rogiros,

Code-based checks and performance criteria are not supported in the RSA. In v2020 these tabs were visible by mistake, which was corrected in the next releases of the program.

Dear ESTRUCTO,

The strength values assigned in the materials' properties are those used in the analysis.

Dear aeng96,

You could subdivide the element and assign different sections (including the different reinforcement) to them.

Dear nuttaphon.B, As it is written in SeismoStruct's User Manual: "Two nodes need to be defined for these element types, representing the end-nodes of the element, thus defining its length, position in space and direction (local axis 1). A rotation angle or a third node is required so as to def...

Dear vasquezscr , The "a" is the stiffness ratio of second to first branch. The initial stiffness of the idealized system is determined in such a way that the areas under the actual and the idealized force – deformation curves are equal (EC8 part-1). The "unbalanced Area Error (%)&quo...

Dear pcandeias, According to SeismoStruct's Help System: Four nodes need to be defined for this element type. These correspond to the corners of the shell element, must be entered in anti-clockwise sequence starting from the lower-left-hand corner, and must all belong to the same plane. Hence, you m...