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Thank you for your answer.

I am asking because I was wondering if I make the same frame, but one with your element for infill and second one with the just one truss in the diagonal will I get the same natural period? And I didn't. Then I have tried to modify area of the truss to get the same period ...

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how the program takes into account stiffness of the infill panel? Is it defined through Panel thickness t and Strut Area 1? Does the program considers infill as 1, 2 or 4 diagonal struts when it calculates period of the infilled frame? Is Strut Area 1 area of the 1, 2 or 4 diagonal struts ...

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i have modeled a simple case of static pushover analysis of RC frame. I have made two models:

1. With 3 elements (two columns and one beam)

2. I have used command to subdivide these elements on 5 parts each.

First, this command has a bug. It gives a wrong name to some nodes and thus connects ...

Ok. I have done this. Added 4 link elements in 4 nodes. But the problem is that I want to define stiffness of the Link/spring in just F1 and F3 direction, and it seems that in this way infill element doesn't get activated, because M2 stiffness is 0.

Is it necessary to define M2 stiffnessin order to ...

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Is it possible to add springs/links in this way all around the infill wall?

To explain in more details. I would like to model the frame connected to the infill wall with the springs, but with for example 10 springs on each of four sides. In that way, as explained in note ...

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if I understood right:

- node 1 should be node of the frame
- node 2 should be node coincidental to the node 1
- node 1 and 2 are connected with the link
- node 4 is node of the infill element
- node 3 should be node coincidental to the node 4
- node 3 and 4 are connected with the link
- node ...

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I have tried this, but it is not working.

I am modelling RC frame with infill wall and I want to model springs between infill panel and frame. In SeismoStruct user manual on page 375 you wrote:

NOTE 3: In very refined models, users may wish to introduce link elements between the frame and ...

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I would like to connect 2 joints with the spring. I saw a possibility to model it with the link elements, but if I understood right for link elements only coincidential nodes can be aasigned. I have 2 joints that don't have the same coordinates. Is there a possibility in Seismostruct to model ...

I understand what I was doing wrong.

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