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I found my error while calculating the elastic demand spectrum in excel. Still, I will be happy if you please give a reply about how the target displacement is determined according to Turkish Earthquake Code by Seismostruct. Which method is applied to determine the target displacement? Does the soft...

I have been trying to find the target displacement by comparing the pushover capacity curve with the demand spectrum according to the Turkish Earthquake Code. The program automatically calculates the target displacement as 0.17 m. (for a DD1 level ground motion-2% prob. of exceedance in 50 years). H...

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I have to model a building with reinforced concrete (retaining) shear walls at the circumference of the building in the basement. In some other software, I was modeling the shear walls as reinforced concrete panel elements where the soil property is defined as a spring coefficient. How am I going to...

How is the chord rotation demand (angle between tangent to the member axis at the end and line connecting member end point to the inflection point ) calculated by Seismostruct when the member is modeled as "infrmFB" and divided into parts using a number of integration sections? Do we need ...

I have a reinforced concrete building model where inelastic fiber elements were emploed for the structural elements. I did a pushover analysis where the resulting capacity curve will be used for capacity spectrum method (i.e. nonlinear assessment). There is no need to modify flexural stiffness of th...

I am going to answer the question myself. Yes..all the slab loads (live and dead), different slab thickness values that are defined in seismobuild stage are also present after the model is exported to seismostruct. I checked it by performing Static Analysis (non-variable load) for various values of ...

I prepared my model in Seismobuild and exported this model into Seismostruct as explained in the tutorials. Everything was fine and I did pushover analysis without any problem. But I could not be sure about the permanent loads. I have already defined dead and live loads on the slab during seismobuil...

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I could not find any detailed information about how to use reinforcement strain as a performance criterion both in the help menu and users manual. It is said that you can define reinforcement strain as a performance criterion, but nothing else. For example it does not say what is meant by "Stee...