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The confinement factor in the plastic hinge region is 1.27 and it is automatically calculated. The stress points are fine too. I mentioned earlier, I am running the same model, the same stress-points, and I just change the material model type. The Chang-Mander model unlike the Mander model does not ...

Dear Gronti,

I am aware of what SeismoStruct is supposed to do. But, for this material model (Chang-Mander), if you check the stress-strain of confined and unconfined concrete they both are similar to unconfined concrete, while using Mander model they are different. Could you check this problem ...

It seems that when using Chang-Mander concrete model in SeismoStruct, it does not apply the confining effects to the concrete core fibers. Therefore, the stress-strain response of the cover concrete is the same as the outer fibers of the core concrete. There is no such issue with the Mander model ...

I have utilized inelastic displacement-based fibre section frame elements in my model. I am running response spectrum analysis, which is basically elastic analysis. I was wondering if Seismostruct uses the elastic section properties, how I can modify the stiffness values to account for the cracked ...

I have recently used SeismoStruct to perform Response Spectrum Analysis (RSA). It seems to me that there is a problem with the RSA. I was modelling a single circular column, symmetric in all directions. The problem is that the software does not apply the response spectrum in the Y direction. I ...

I have been running SeismoStruct in the batch mode and I wanted to extract the results of non-linear time history analysis from the application. However, the text file it generates contains irrelevant displacement values. I checked each model responses in the post-processor and they were all fine ...