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Hi Muntarsir,
Could you please send your new model?
Kushan

<t>Hi Muntasir,<br/>
Try in this way that you can model the brace with high slenderness value to have very low resistance in compression. In this case, you have to model a brace with two inelastic forced-based elements. In addition, you have to give an initial imperfection at the mid node to ...

<t>Hi Muntarsir,<br/>
It is possible in SeismoStrut to model such a brace but, you have to check in the section list whether the required type of composite section (where you can assign different materials to different part of the section) is available or not. In the case that it is not available ...

<t>Hi Mostafa,<br/>
As Ricardo pointed out, you can use the truss element in modelling of braces. However, if you are interested in modelling of post buckling behaviour of braces, then you can use two inelastic forced-based frame elements (infrmFB) to model single brace. In that case, you have to ...

Dear Dr George Vasdravellis,
Yes,for sure. You can separate the two elements using rigid links and then use link elements.
best regards,
Kushan

<t>Hi,<br/>
Problem could be related to the missing DOF when you connect the beam element which has six degrees of freedom to the truss element which has one degree of freedom. I suggest you to use beam elements to model truss releasing all the degrees of freedom except the axial DOF using link ...

<t>Dear Dr George Vasdravellis<br/>
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You can define two nodes (with two node names) with the same coordinates: one node for the steel beam and other for concrete slab at each point where you connect the elements. Hence, you can define to elements with same coordinates, but they are separated ...

<t>Dear Ronjie, <br/>
Yes, I agree with you that material does not behave purely linear just below the yield point. If you have a look on the past experimental test data of structural steel either on monolithic or cyclic loading, then, you can note that there is a transaction curve between the ...