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Yes I am indeed applying displacement-controlled pushover.Therefore I will try what you suggest and hope for the best. I'll keep you updated. Thank you again for your immediate help and answers, they were valuable to me.

Mr. Huff,

Thank you very much for your immediate and thorough response, I appreciate it deeply and it was very helpful. I do have two more questions though.

First of all, the gap-hook deformation is indeed less than 1/100th of the pier displacement but only in two directions. In the other ...

Good evening,

I am trying to model a bridge with bearings, and I want to put stoppers on the bearings. By stoppers ( because I dont know if I'm using the right word), I mean an element that will stop the bearing displacement when it reaches its fracture limit, and will transfer the forces directly ...