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Thanks for the advice. Actually it is possible several fractures to occur almost simultaneously so I tried to set performance criteria just for one of the braces, not for all of them. Unfortunatelly the result was the same - analysis terminates with the same logout messages. I'm trying to adjust the ...

Hi Tim Huff,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did set up performance criteria with the option "No residual strength" but as soon as the criteria is reached in any of the braces, the analysis terminates with logout message "Max_Tol"and "Sol_prb". I thought of some modelling mistake that I have done and ...

Dear SeismoSoft team,

I perform static nonlinear analysis of a two-story steel special concentrically braced frame. I have made two models - first one with concentrated plasticity in a plastic hinge in the middle of the brace, in the second one I use the SeismoStruct v.7.0.6 infrmFB element and a ...