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<t>I am not sure if I totally understood your point, but discrepancies between pushover results and dynamic analyses has already been cited in the past. <br/> <br/> Static pushover analysis (SPA) lacks a rigorous theoretical foundation since the nonlinear response of a structure is assumed to be rel...

<t>Dr. Pinho, thank you really so much for your input on this topic. I had forgotten such parameter. That helped. THANK YOU!<br/> <br/> Dear Rashid, many thanks for your contribution. Indeed I had the older version of IDARC Manual and had tried to tweak such behavior through multi_lin element. Thoug...

<t>Thank you really so much Rui for your discussion on this topic. <br/> <br/> Does anybody have any recommendation/hint regarding the modeling strategy and link element type to be used to model shear-dominant columns? I have been able to reproduce the pinched response, but attainment of the signifi...

<r>Hello,<br/> <br/> While I have been successful simulating accurate hysteresis behavior of FLEXURAL dominant RC columns with pretty much any type of confining device (e.g. stirrups, steel jacket, FRP jacket, welded stirrups, FRP+steel jacket) in SStruct, I have difficulty capturing the pinched pos...

<r>SStruct does not do such function.<br/> However, you can use other resources, such as:<br/> <br/> "SELENA - SEismic Loss EstimatioN using a logic tree Approach"<br/> <br/> Such package is a comprehensive series of Matlab files and provide all the required functions. Link to the website:<br/> <br/...

Best of luck to you adeelfaisal and Merry Christmas.
Don't forget to share your research results in the forum regarding the use of the great SeismoStruct package!

<r>1- I guess your stiffness should be:<br/> <br/> K= {(Fmax+ve)+(Fmax-ve)}/{(Dmax+ve)+(Dmax-ve)}<br/> <br/> 2- As long as stiffness degradation, Takeda should work just fine I guess. I recall I recommended using the Sivaselvan and Reinhorn work, as you could explicitly specify the extent of strengt...

<r>Dear adeelfaisal,<br/> <br/> Huffte's recommendation is perfect. I have an additional comment, stiffness degradation is often reported as an average value at constant drift limits, for static cyclic column, joint, member tests.<br/> <br/> For clarity of what I mean, look at Figs. 10 & 11 of t...

<r>In shake table tests in addition to the scale factor of the prototype structure, low cycle fatigue is considered as well (they try to avoid it at first runs!). Based on the what I know, answer to your question is YES,the time history is reduced for a prototype structure, but not 1/6 exactly (they...

Maximum tolerance is the program default (i.e., 1e20)